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Apple appeals $570 million antitrust fine, says EU blew off compliance collaboration
It's a shakedown, pure and simple. And since the EU is a government, it's all "legal", with little to no recourse for those being shaken down.
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DOJ seeks to break up Google ad business after illegal monopoly ruling
Alex_V said:
Do you have any evidence for that? I’ve never heard of anything of the sort, except that probably the Chinese state’s has user data from domestic companies, and maybe Russia too. The point is that Google, Facebook have more data on us than KGB or the East German Stasi had on their citizens, and it’s not a problem. I just don’t get it.beowulfschmidt said:
It's not so hard to understand when one finds out that the government buys that data from companies to make an end run around Constitutional restrictions on acquiring that data themselves, which requires judges and warrants.Google "government buying private data to avoid constitutional restrictions" if you need more.DuckDuckGo returns similar results.
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Billion dollar battle: Picking an App Store fight with Apple cost Epic Games greatly
It's too bad that Sweeney himself won't feel the pain of all that "lost" revenue. It's Epic employees who will be laid off in the event the unrealized revenue has consequences.
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DOJ seeks to break up Google ad business after illegal monopoly ruling
Alex_V said:I find it astonishing that regulators are not addressing the problem of surveillance of private citizens by companies. The one notable exception is the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It’s as if lawmakers and representatives around the world are utterly unaware of the appalling surveillance capitalism business model of companies like Google, Facebook, and others. I really think that is the problem: most people, including politicians, believe that Google and Facebook are giving out free lunches.
It's not so hard to understand when one finds out that the government buys that data from companies to make an end run around Constitutional restrictions on acquiring that data themselves, which requires judges and warrants.
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Meta, Spotify lobby to pass the buck on age verification to Apple and Google
riverko said:I just wonder when there are users who only use browser and never an app eg for facebook or instagram, which can be used on windows or linux machines, how that involves apple and google for the age verification…
Apple/Google will, or course, be required to provide age verification for these devices and platforms as well, via a service that the various web sites must call out to when a new user subscribes. After all, Google has a monopoly on the internet, so it should be simple for them. No cost or pain at all. /s
