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It's good, though, that the European countries stood together and told Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook to get bent and go home! As an EU citizen,
by adimitrov 8y ago
It's good, though, that the European countries stood together and told Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook to get bent and go home!
As an EU citizen, my response to "we're sorry not sorry but due to recent EU laws, we can't continue to offer you this service" is: get bent, go home. I hope we, as the software development community can finally understand and appreciate that the insane proliferation of personal data modern tech has become dependent upon is a Bad Thing.
- kenjackson 8y agoThe problem though is also the complexity. If I want to actually make my product better by knowing if my product crashes in the wild, then it is far more complex to do now in the EU. And in particular the potential risk is huge. For many companies who aren't at the scale of a Google or Microsoft, the best solution is to simply not be available in EU -- at least until you reach such a scale that growth into the EU is required.
- mdekkers 8y agoIf I want to actually make my product better by knowing if my product crashes in the wild There are many ways to achieve that goal. I am not buying the argument that automatic data collection about everything you do is there to "improve our software".