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I feel for the foreign (non USA) countries that are subject to this kind of gaslighting from Big Tech. At least in the United States, we can proposition our ow
by BayAreaEscapee 6y ago
I feel for the foreign (non USA) countries that are subject to this kind of gaslighting from Big Tech. At least in the United States, we can proposition our own politicians to reign in the excesses of Big Tech in our own country.
Foreign countries have no real alternative: there is no way to lobby Big Tech for change. They have no real voice far away in Washington DC.
In some cases they can just block some site or app and insist people use the locally developed alternative, but this isn't really all that effective. Usually the local alternative has some deficiencies, and it doesn't always work: look at the way Russia failed to block Telegram a few years ago.
- 0800LUCAS 6y agoTBH I disagree with your statement here. It's not just the USA that can do this. Europe and UK did this pretty successfully. Thanks to their legislation Facebook won't share data with WhatsApp. But I agree what you say is true when it comes to emerging countries. But then again, maybe they do. Take Brazil or India as examples. They have such massive population that if they wanted to, they could impose financial penalties to Facebook for doing that. The problem is figuring out if politicians in those countries have the incentive to do that though.
- fakedang 6y agoConsidering that the current Indian government already sells driving license data, hahaha.
- thunkshift1 6y agoDo you have a source for that? Last I read it was dmvs in the usa that were actually selling user data. https://abc7news.com/automotive/dmv-makes-$50m-a-year-by-selling-drivers-personal-information-report/5720093/ https://abc7news.com/automotive/dmv-makes-$50m-a-year-by-sel...
- fakedang 6y agoHindu fanatics already here down voting me, but this is their minister admitting to it: https://www.indiatoday.in/auto/latest-auto-news/story/govt-selling-vehicle-and-dl-data-of-indians-for-rs-3-crore-87-private-companies-already-bought-it-1565901-2019-07-10 https://www.indiatoday.in/auto/latest-auto-news/story/govt-s...