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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 19:53:23 JST Aral Balkan

   • European Commission

   The US understands the threat of foreign tech companies/apps gathering data on US citizens and manipulating their behaviour and is looking to ban TikTok.

   Dear @EU_Commission, here’s an incomplete list of foreign tech companies/apps gathering data on EU citizens and manipulating their behaviour:

   - Meta Platforms, Inc. (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc.)
   - Alphabet, Inc. (Google, YouTube, etc.)
   - Twitter, Inc.
   - Microsoft (Windows, etc.)
   - Snap, Inc.

   Thoughts?

   #SiliconValley #BigTech #us #eu

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   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 20:41:02 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Sexybiggetje🐖
     • European Commission

     @martijn Apple is (still) more complicated and I still have a character limit here. So I chose accordingly ;)

     @EU_Commission

   • Sexybiggetje🐖 (martijn@ieji.de)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 20:41:03 JST Sexybiggetje🐖

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     • European Commission

     @aral
     I'd say apple is very much missing from that list.
     @EU_Commission

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 20:41:49 JST Aral Balkan

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     • smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊)
     • European Commission

     @smallcircles Yep, considered it but character limits… (also, gotta leave some stuff for others to add in the comments, no?) ;P

     @EU_Commission

   • smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊) (smallcircles@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 20:41:51 JST smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊)

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     • European Commission

     @aral @EU_Commission

     #Github is an important one that's missing on the #Microsoft entry.

     Looks so deceptively open to the naive eye, but is a huge trap of walled garden lock-in, esp. with all the stuff that's being added right now to this all-pervasive platform.

     #FreeYourCode or otherwise #GiveUpGithub I'd say to all the many governmental institutions in the #EU that are considering it in their - well-meant - efforts to move towards #FOSS. Before the next problem is at your doorstep.