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It’s official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android (ec.europa.eu)
submitted 2 days ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1267324/its-official-eu-will-force-google-to-share-search-data-and-open-up-ai-on-android

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[–] buran@lemmy.today 48 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They should focus on not letting Google kill Android.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do the EU have the capability to fork it?

[–] buran@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don't know, but I'm not sure if a government funded fork would be the right move.

Many people have their doubts about using funding for things like that, I wouldn't be opposed to it but Europe has other problems that people might consider more urgent.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It would absolutely be the right move. Some individual countries are already doing this and there are proposals for EU to do the same:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_Sovereign_Tech_Fund

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, it would be so much easier for the eu to do chat control is they controlled the while os

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 1 day ago

That's not how any of that works.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

OK. So in that case the easiest thing to do is to hand out fines.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world -3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is "kill" a strong word here? They are heavily restricting it, and it's reversible with some effort, know-how, and compromise, right?

But killing it, I feel like they are not. Even though I strongly oppose what they are doing, don't get me wrong!

[–] buran@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I mean, it's the Android Open Source Project. Restricting it would be against the interests of the Free Software/Open Source movements and I believe that's a violation on the principles of the project in my opinion.

[–] GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

These changes don’t affect AOSP. Basically if the phone comes with the Google play store it is affected. AOSP doesn’t have Google play in it.

[–] buran@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

I forgot that, thank you.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I would agree, but I wouldn't say they are killing the project. 👍