Alex_V

rob53 said:

Good luck Europe. Prepare to be controlled by your government requiring loading of government-sponsored malware tracking your every movement without any need for a warrant. The first third-party app storefront will be controlled by your local police force, requiring every citizen to load government specific software. In many cases you won't even know they're loading monitoring software, you'll be required to load a government app that includes voter ID, driver's license, etc. Everything in one app will be presented as software everyone needs for taxes and every other government process. Guess what's going to also be loaded in the background .... yep, monitoring software so they know where you're at and what you're doing. Have fun!!

You mean, like the commercial malware that Google installs on every computer tracking your every move, reading every email and document, while denying you any privacy at all? Or, do you mean the commercial malware that Facebook uses to track your movements, your social network, likes and dislike, and monitoring your phone and linking your number to your purchases, memberships etc., that is, your life away from the internet. Or, do you mean the commercial cookie hell that was the internet before the EU stepped in and regulated that kak? All of this thanks to your pole-dancing prostitutes that you call ‘representatives’ doing nothing to reign in the most egregious invasions of privacy and attacks on personal freedom being unleashed from the bowels of capitalist Silicon Valley. Is that what you mean?

With the exception of specialised cases (eg. Sony & Siemens mentioned above) all these companies must realise that no matter what device you produce, you are actually participating in a war between  operating systems. That means Apple versus Google, (as Microsoft idiotically abandoned smartphones, undermining their entire strategy). Apple is the stand out. The rest: Sony, Samsung, Asus, Huawei, One+, whatever are relegated to manufacturing appliances for Google, who will take home the lion’s share of the profits from installing their spyware in the appliances in the service of their advertising business model. 

rob53 said:

I always find it interesting that the EU only brings in American companies to try and regulate. The article didn't include who the "more Big Tech" companies are but I assume none of them are from the EU. It would be nice if the EU cartel of countries actually had something to offer to the world instead of simply taxing a company to make its payroll.

A garbage tirade. Wilfully ignorant. 

Nikon8 said:

Alex_V said:

Maybe this will contribute to the demise of Google and its appalling model of surveillance capitalism. I'm writing that more in hope than expectation, as Google isn't just search anymore, they have Android and YouTube, for example, and those ain’t going anywhere.

You want Microsoft to be even bigger monopoly?  Besides Microsoft are doing the same thing. Tracking people on windows 

So? You want Google to be even bigger monopoly?  Jeez… 

Agreed! Hilarious!