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Anecdotally, when I had a potential skin cancer checked at a London hospital they were completely ill-prepared.

When I came back to Australia, it was checked and immediately removed as an obvious melanoma.

Perhaps the idea of Comparative Advantage also applies to healthcare between countries with natural variances to types of disease?

Can't speak for Google's case - but Apple certainly goes to great pains to make it clear they don't collect location data on users - it's left on the user's device.

Isn't it interesting that it takes an international mega-corporation to take a more realistic and principled approach to user privacy than a democratic government.

To be honest I thought the same thing. Pricing was also a little hidden.

I have been looking for something like this - as patio11 would say, you should always charge more than you think but I’ll be honest, my workplace could not really justify this price for an hour.

I mean, this seems perfectly reasonable? The letter is polite and explains exactly why they have reached out.

You could make a reasonable case that someone may be confused and think this fan is officially related to the Raspberry Pi company.

This seems like a good thing in theory... but if it's all all successful, where goes the inventive for manufacturers to be more careful about their code?

Why should they make secure code if it's just going to be fixed for them?

Also, where's the incentive for lawmakers to regulate IoT security if less people are affected?