This doesn't advocate for any substantial improvement of data protections. It's merely a convenience argument to legitimize banning Chinese cars for economic reasons. American car manufacturers will continue to harvest and sell all your data, just with less competition.
Of course, this isn't a surprise coming from the CFR, the lobbying organization for US imperialism.
"Safe" being defined in a user-hostile manier, i.e. with unmodified Google components and not rooted.
"Google-controlled" would be a better word.
Such is the fate of hypercentralized spaces. The fediverse fixes this.
I don't see how this is so difficult. Given the choice between a narcissistic billionaire or an independent, accountable government commission that's bound by the rule of law, I'll choose the latter every time.
I don't have an opinion on the matter being discussed
You know it's an option to just... keep scrolling right? This isn't high school, you aren't obliged to leave a comment.
With this approach you would lose the subvolume structure and deduplication if I'm not mistaken.
Obviously acquiring publicly available data is legal
Under the EU GDPR it is often not legal. Controllers need a legal basis, which only exists if there is an appropriate relationship between the controller and the data subject.
No, you got downvoted because you were insulting and incorrect.
Law is more complicated than quoting bits of text that you like. You actually have to consider other texts (the fourteenth amendment made the bill of rights applicable to states) and case law (Everson v. Board of education confirms that states and school districts can't support specific religious activities).
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The Google Play Store has long been the bastion for safe and worry-free app downloads
It's nice that the article starts with this blatent lie, so that you know everything that follows is just regurgitating Google's marketing.
Even ignoring that most of the apps in the play store are unreviewed proprietary spyware sending all their data back to Google, there have been many instances of obvious malware being distributed through the play store. It seems like they are trying to sweep that under the rug.
The most common physical attacks will be you misplacing your device or some friend/burglar/cop taking it. FDE works great in those scenarios.
Is this a threat?