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Also, here in the U.S., we’ve managed to screw up so badly on data privacy and basic rights that the EU has been systematically replacing their entire tech stack with sovereign components.
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I'm not familiar with the Act. Can you explain how it would kill theses startups?
It kills those hardware startups that attempt to make money by selling us insecure crap? See also, the GDPR killing startups that attempt to invade our privacy and exploit personal data without permission.
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Less than the Iranian regime has.
At least they didn't double tap a school.
One of the groups took over a church where refugees were hiding and burnt them alive in the building.
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I'd rather have that than insecure hardware. It seems like it forces security to be a first class priority instead of an afterthought.
It forces Europeans wanting to build hardware startups to go overseas, so there's even fewer new European hardware companies and Europe becomes even more dependent on the US and China.
I think losing the companies that don't have security as a main priority isn't too bad. I assume that the EU will create import restrictions if there is a meaningful shift to avoid EU rules.
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I looked it up, and it seems that one issue is that Google, as a DMA gatekeeper, is supposed to provide anonymous data to other search services, but in practice, important parts of the actual data have been removed. The other issue is that competing AI services (not just Gemini) should also be allowed to run integrated app search. Reading about it, both points seem valid to me.
Also apps need to be allowed to conduct their transactions outside the appstore and the appstore must allow them to advertise that.
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It kills those hardware startups that attempt to make money by selling us insecure crap? See also, the GDPR killing startups that attempt to invade our privacy and exploit personal data without permission.
And then there are no European hardware startups and your own options for hardware are Chinese and American, both with backdoors.
EU regulatory apparatus is maybe only part of the EU which is operates without obsequiousness to the US; on the one hand, this is necessary assertion of sovereignty, on the other you fear for the wider collateral damage which will inevitably ensue. Trump gonna respond to this with an escalation for sure
That's one read. For me it feels like practically (ASML, ARM, SAP not withstanding) their only "contribution" to tech is fines and exporting regulation. Sometimes this works out well (usb-c on iPhone), but most of the time it feels like if they want software, hardware, or the web to operate the way they want, perhaps they should try to actually produce some of it instead of being wholly reliant on others while also t…
For Google this is just like parking tickets to UPS. A cost of doing business in town.
this comment always comes up and it's _wrong_. The goal of the regulation is to get the operators to comply, which they usually do after fines (EDIT: and litigations and whining, of course), because the costs of infractions are increased if they don't comply.
The correct solution to this is to have fines scaled to the value of a company and an exponential doubling of fines for every re-offence that falls under the same category of crime with a cooling off period after a few years.
For Google this is just like parking tickets to UPS. A cost of doing business in town.
this comment always comes up and it's _wrong_. The goal of the regulation is to get the operators to comply, which they usually do after fines (EDIT: and litigations and whining, of course), because the costs of infractions are increased if they don't comply.