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It’s official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android (ec.europa.eu)
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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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[–] 43 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Can't they not let Android get locked down in a few months too? It'll almost become as bad as iOS at that point. Who knows they might even block installation of other OSs in the future.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    The EU doesn't actually care about user freedom, they just want as much surveillance as possible.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    I love how many upvotes this simplistic view gets on lemmy. EU passed strongest privacy laws on the planet, leading the way and inspiring many other countries to follow and now it's actually enforcing them by punishing biggest corporations but the narrative on lemmy is still that they are terrible surveillance state. Why? Because they proposed a law that would force some social media sites with history of being used to groom children to do age verification while preserving privacy and encryption. A law that did not pass. The narrative that EU is fighting privacy is so stupid it just has to be propaganda. And we all know who's spreading it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Almost?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Theoretically you'll still be able to sideload but only after going through a convoluted process.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Convoluted process where the developer of the app has to sell their soul to Google

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    No, that convoluted process will let people install the apps directly from play store. The process to "sideload" (not really sideloading but let's just say it is for simplicity) is a different convoluted process.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    In addition to demanding payment of a registration fee and agreement to their (non-negotiable and ever-changing) terms and conditions, Google will also require the uploading of personally identifying documents, including government ID, by the authors of the software, as well as enumerating all the unique “application identifiers” for every app that is to be distributed by the registered developer.

    The F-Droid project cannot require that developers register their apps through Google, but at the same time, we cannot “take over” the application identifiers for the open-source apps we distribute, as that would effectively seize exclusive distribution rights to those applications.

    (implying that even non-play store apps needs Devs to give their info to google)

    source: https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

    granted, this is a secondary source, but it does link the primary source within the quoted text.

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