[HN Gopher] Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controll...
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Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications
Act [pdf]
Author : mfiguiere
Score : 17 points
Date : 2024-03-05 18:04 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov)
(TXT) w3m dump (selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov)
| mindslight wrote:
| It would be kind of nice if they spent any of this effort on
| protecting Americans from the older and more pervasive _domestic
| adversary controlled applications_. Especially as it could be
| done in terms of generally applicable principles and not just
| come off as petty protectionism and blatant disregard of the
| first amendment. Like say some straightforward anti-trust
| legislation to end this widespread _bundling_ of client apps
| together with publishing /hosting services, and a port of the
| GDPR to give individuals some agency regarding the surveillance
| industry.
| probably_satan wrote:
| Should worry about domestic adversaries too, there are plenty of
| them (hi Microsoft)
| usr1106 wrote:
| As a European I'd like to see my compatriots to wake up that
| having zero alternatives to US companies is pretty unhealty. For
| smartphone OSes the alternatives are not realistic for 99.9%. For
| PCs it's probably 95%.
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| We live in a free world (which I don't always notice in US
| legislation), so I am not asking for laws to forbid it. But just
| don't use products of companies not showing respect for our data
| protection standards located in a country the government of which
| sees no limititations regarding spying on foreigners.
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