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  • Apple, Google in a 'standoff' with Germany and France over contact tracing privacy

    chaicka said:

    Weird that on one hand EU has always pushed for stringent PDPA laws to protect privacy yet now contradict themselves to allow centralised storage of data without users’ permission.
    The EU bureaucracy pretends to care about its citizens but it's number one priority is protecting and promoting the plan for an EU superstate. Its ambitions wrecked the economies of Southern Europe by allowing them to join the euro, and it provoked the invasion of the Ukraine.

    The EU will undoubtedly use such centralised tracking resources to undermine and counter anti-EU political organisations in member states. Today's technology gives it the kind of survellience powers the KGB could only dream of.

    Thank goodness democracy prevailed in the UK and we managed to leave.
    PetrolDaveJanNL
  • Hands on: macOS 10.15.5 Battery Health Management

    I don’t know what people on here are doing to experience swollen batteries, never seen that on any Apple device. Have seen plenty of Samsung’s like that at work though.

    Meanwhile my 2006 Black Macbook continues running, with its original battery, without any issues.
    watto_cobra
  • UK's NHS working on app using Apple-Google contact tracking tech

    elijahg said:
    Considering the overzealous police here thinking we've turned into a police state, informing people they will (illegally) start searching shopping trolleys for "non essential items" and telling people they can't even exercise in their own gardens - contrary to the actual law -  I don't think this will be used by too many people.
    Only a handful of incidents in a couple of police forces. If anything, the police are being criticised for not being zealous enough in enforcing lockdown penalty fines.
    Zero chance of the U.K. ever becoming a police state, fascist, or communist. Brits have a healthy dislike of all extremists.
    gatorguy
  • Mac shipments down 21% year-on-year in global PC market shrink

    This is no surprise. 
    All manufacturers would have seen a huge slump in sales due to the lockdown. The reason why the PC makers got off lighter is that corporates went on a crazy buying spree ahead of the lockdowns to try try and equip workers so they could work from home. 
    That certainly happened at my company.
    Sadly most companies are still locked-in to Windoze...
    tmay
  • Microsoft 365 subscription offers AI assistance in Word, PowerPoint

    Have MicroSoft suggest grammatical changes to my sentences...  :D

    First they screw up corporate IT, now they want to wreck the English language  :'(
    watto_cobra