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I just took a look at this for my own account. It has me associated with India; I’m Australian, but spent just over a year in India recently. I have never received any notification like the one cited in this article. (Perhaps because it wouldn’t affect which company service is offered through? But the laws may still differ.) And as far as Google Play Store is concerned, I’m American for some completely unknown reason…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Spoiler alert: in 10 years a leak reveals that ProtonMail is one of the multiple "Swiss-based privacy-oriented" services operated by secret services.
NordVPN is pushed so hard everywhere that it looks like a single point of failure - I assume every secret service wants to hack it, if they didnt already.
Can EU citizens living in Malaysia long-term exercise their GDPR rights when Google decides that they reside in Malaysia?
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...
Why are you using Google if privacy is this much of a concern for you? There are many other services that provide much better privacy protections, eg ProtonMail.
Spoiler alert: in 10 years a leak reveals that ProtonMail is one of the multiple "Swiss-based privacy-oriented" services operated by secret services.
I believe that there are still honorable companies out there (and I don't even use ProtonMail in particular)
The author is aware that his account ended up being associated with Malaysia, right? I have the impression he mistakenly thinks it stayed with Germany?
Yeah I'm also confused by that part. The first said Germany -> Malaysia and the second said: Will be unchanged but Malaysia
Though note that the dates may be confused: the article was posted on May 1st but the edit is marked April 4th, for an update to an article which would have been posted a month later.
Most likely the date for the update is wrong and should be something like June 4th, and in
> Which will happen first? The automatic switching of the country association, or Google responding to my inquiry? It’s going to be a race!
the automatic switching won.
I understand the author's frustration. But until someone finds out how a company that operates globally can satisfy the laws of the countries their customers are located in without associating the accounts with a country, I'm not sure what we can do. > What I find curious is that it says the services are essentially the same between different countries. So, there is no advantage to me as a consumer for anything to ch…
If someone rents an Airbnb for a few months in a new location are they now a resident of that new location? If we aren't talking about residency then changing an association (whatever that means) seems arbitrary.
For the UK it's 31 days of more than 3 hours of work. I think it's the same for the US.
I just took a look at this for my own account. It has me associated with India; I’m Australian, but spent just over a year in India recently. I have never received any notification like the one cited in this article. (Perhaps because it wouldn’t affect which company service is offered through? But the laws may still differ.) And as far as Google Play Store is concerned, I’m American for some completely unknown reason…
How many apps get region locked to Australia?
Local TV providers still use region-locked apps for streaming services.
Why are you using Google if privacy is this much of a concern for you? There are many other services that provide much better privacy protections, eg ProtonMail.
I wouldn't trust any other email provider than one of those three, if I would need to have truly secure emailing via a 3rd party. But none are in a different position that Google, maybe with exception of ProtonMail.
Which ones would you list?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesetz_zur_Beschr%C3%A4nkung_d...
Granted, I wish Google's approach to privacy was better all around, but given that they want to gobble up as much data as possible, and we all know about that by now, I am not as confused by their approach here as I am by the author's reaction.