It’s funny you bring up cars… auto manufacturers of course leading the charge on explicitly refusing to open up telemetry data to Apple and Google. Sure, they say it’s to protect the data, to prevent their secrets from being stolen… that also may be true, even if cynical… but that sure isn’t stopping them from taking that data themselves. Oh well. That’s the benefit of controlling your own product.
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Apple Warns of Privacy Risks in EU's DMA Interoperability Requirements
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It’s funny you bring up cars… auto manufacturers of course leading the charge on explicitly refusing to open up telemetry data to Apple and Google. Sure, they say it’s to protect the data, to prevent their secrets from being stolen… that also may be true, even if cynical… but that sure isn’t stopping them from taking that data themselves. Oh well. That’s the benefit of controlling your own product.
Your opinion. However, if you'd taken the time to actually think about what was written you'd see that wasn't the point being made.
100 percent my opinion. However if you taken the time to see what was written, you’d see commenting on that point was fair game.
Oh cookie consent, the best example how to **** up the enjoyment of the internet for millions. Every politician who was involved with that and unable to fix it for almost 10 years should be banned from decision making for the rest of their life.
No.
A stated that the EU had done nothing for the residents and then what can't have been more than 60 seconds later posted the contradiction that mandating that USBC was good.
Keep up.
If the cookie banner doesn’t look similar to these regarding the clear consent and ease of saying no. Then they are 99.9% in breach of GDPR.
If it’s an American site then it’s most likely a crappy U.S. regulation from California etc
This is real danger. EU in his witch-hunting is targeting Apple, and it could affect security. As a final user I don’t care about “competition”, but I don’t trust companies like Meta or Google with my data. I choose Apple for a specific reason.
Your privacy and security remain untouched, since you‘re always free to a) not use Meta products and b) to simply deny the permission requests you are not comfortable with.
Pure FUD in this topic.
Disclaimer: heavily against Meta, but I couldn‘t care less if iOS provides new APIs they can use and try to gauge data from gullible Meta products fans. It wont ever affect me, since I wont approve any permission requests they prompt me with.
Everyone knew that Apple would move to USB-C eventually. EU's decision played a small role in it. But being a resident in EU, what I can see that many decisions only create problems for the countries. There are more losers than gainers in EU. It created more bureaucracy, more corruption and unstable economy.
On a fundamental level, there are functions and objects that should only be accessible to the core OS. Apple does not need to give those to outside developers. At the same time, Apple does not need to use those same functions and objects in their own applications.
Apple, at this point you've dropped your pants and let them bend you over time after time. Either back out of the EU all together or shut up at this point. You playing along with their BS is why this is still going on.
At some point, I suspect using 'privacy' as their default response to any/all competitive complaints about their products is going to get pretty stale and hard to defend/justify....
So they refuse to take responsibility for CrowdStrike, AND refuse to learn from the lesson of CrowdStrike!
“Apple never told us that obviously bad ideas are bad ideas!” — EU regulators in the future
Probably REALLY didn’t like when Microsoft said that if they had a system like Apple’s, it would have prevented the whole thing from happening in the first place
“Apple never told us that obviously bad ideas are bad ideas!” — EU regulators in the future
Probably REALLY didn’t like when Microsoft said that if they had a system like Apple’s, it would have prevented the whole thing from happening in the first place
Privacy doesn't exist when you are carrying a device with a camera, microphone and gps in your pocket all day.
Apple doesn't care about privacy if they did they wouldn't sell their users to Google, they care about $$$$
It should ALWAYS be clarified that the EU doesn’t want to see competition between Android and iOS, and absolUTEly doesn’t want to see any new companies enter the market. They ONLY aim to “create fair competition” on top of Apple/Google’s OS’s and via Apple/Google’s app stores. They don’t consider anything else worthy of competition.
One would THINK, but, the DMA was hastily thrown together after Vestager was aware that her OTHER shenanigans ended up with her losing support. She knew she was on the way out so rushed through regulations that does NOT define the iPad as a “gatekeeper” device, so, they just declared it a “gatekeeper” device in complete conflict with the DMA.
For a regulation in conflict with itself, it’s not surprising that it would be in conflict with GDPR.
Exactly. Apple quite literally created USB-C, then provided it to the standards bodies to work on the implementation. Of the companies that had employees assigned to the task, Apple’s group of employees was second ONLY to Intel. The tech world wisely ignored the tech-deaf EU’s Memorandum of Understanding to standardize on microUSB. And, when USB-C was ready, there was little resistance because the tech world was already on board and a part of making the change happen. The only reason why Apple took a full 10 years from adopting lightning to adopting USB-C is because that’s exactly what they announced they’d do when switching to lightning! Which is crazy when you think about it. They were THAT confident that, in 10 years, a reversible, universal cabling system would be available to transition to even though it hadn’t even been fully standardized yet! (Lightning was out in 2012, USB-C wasn’t ratified until 2 years later!)
In all this, the only part the EU had in it was changing their mind from microUSB to USB-C and then closing the barn gate BEHIND them when the entire tech world had already moved on (USB-C isn’t required until the end of THIS year).
I know right? It’s like everyone should have access to bathrooms whenever they need to go. And, if there’s not a public one around, there’s no problem just removing the locks on everyone’s doors so everyone can have that access. Anyone that says that’s a ‘privacy’ concern is just trying to be anticompetitive with THEIR bathroom!
It’s already affected security. They said that companies like CrowdStrike should have the same level of access to Microsoft’s security as Microsoft. It was fine for a number of years, but when it failed, it failed BIG time and all the EU regulators did was point fingers at Microsoft saying, “They didn’t tell us our stupid idea was stupid!” Which I don’t believe for one moment
Oh please, hastily thrown together? Vestager is nether controlling the commission, and not the body that passes it.One would THINK, but, the DMA was hastily thrown together after Vestager was aware that her OTHER shenanigans ended up with her losing support. She knew she was on the way out so rushed through regulations that does NOT define the iPad as a “gatekeeper” device, so, they just declared it a “gatekeeper” device in complete conflict with the DMA.
For a regulation in conflict with itself, it’s not surprising that it would be in conflict with GDPR.
Now what part of the DMA is in conflict with itself regarding the iPad and GDPR? You have obviously not a clue of how any of these things works 😂
his is crazy. Meta should be put out of business. What a cancer to society. Also, when I had an account, they never reacted to scamp posts, bots, and other clearly malicious activity. Everything was according to rules But when bots reported some random dudes posts, they immediately froze account for a month. Wouldn't be surprised if zuk is teabagging with putin.
But when bots reported some random dudes posts, they immediately froze account for a month. Wouldn't be surprised if zuk is teabagging with putin.