Google Pixel Privacy ROMs Face EU Regulations, Google Limits
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How EU digital identity rules and Google's restrictive policies threaten the future of privacy-focused Android operating systems like GrapheneOS.
    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The EU has been overstepping their bounds for years now. The difference now is that they’re doing things that everyone knows is authoritarian. They’ve been authoritarian all along, but the lefties were ok with it because it was authoritarianism that they agreed with.

      EU does flex its power a lot, but the only case I know where you can say they are overstepping their authority was the money borrowing on the EU level during COVID-19 pandemic. Since they have no power of taxation, EU might not be able to repay its debts if countries don’t voluntary repay or other countries cover those debts.

      Do you have other examples where they breached their authority?

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
      61·
      2 months ago

      Things like forcing Apple to allow other payment methods was championed, but imagine if your business is forced to let your customers pay someone else to use your system, and then you’re the one that had to handle all their complaints because they got scammed.

      That is simply not case. Apple has extremely detailed list of payment methods they provide support over. And anything they do not support, they refer you to that payment provider or developer.

      https://support.apple.com/en-vn/111741

        • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
          61·
          2 months ago

          App Store itself directs those people to 3rd parties in those cases.

        • Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
          31·
          2 months ago

          There are lots of people who make that assumption. These are also the most likely demographic to fall for a fake App Store scam.

          That said, Apple have done a piss-poor job pruning their “Walled Garden”. If they really cared about user privacy, Facebook would have been banned multiple times for privacy violations.