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Some good will come of this I think. Much of what Google would want to lobby for, the rest of us in software would. Industries that make a fraction of what soft
by mattmaroon 15y ago
Some good will come of this I think. Much of what Google would want to lobby for, the rest of us in software would. Industries that make a fraction of what software does spend so much more on lobbying and reap the benefits, its absurd that software companies have not followed suit.
I certainly am not naive enough to think all of Google's aims will be noble here, but I suspect they'll be closer to it than Apple or Microsoft.
- EricDeb 15y agoStrongly agree
- ChuckMcM 15y agoI think this is true, but some of the stuff that annoys Google (like California's labor laws) they might want to change in a way that you and I would disagree with. So it is nice to have someone more technologically astute lobbying the Government, but their perspective as the 800lb gorilla with data 'issues' might incline them more toward a 'responsible use of data collected across products' rather than 'customers must be informed and opt-in prior to any data use' type policies. Back in the way back times when crytpo code was considered a munition, I was participating in efforts to convince the Clinton Whitehouse that it was impractical to impede US companies from putting strong encryption into their products which Italian companies had the same tools at their fingertips as we did. One of the unsung heroes of that time is John Gage, who probably had a lot of trips back and forth to D.C. What I found discouraging is that for every well motivated suggestion, we would get a couple of less savory people jumping on board because it enabled some of their activities. Very, very challenging to propose laws or regulations that bad actors can't turn to their advantage some how. Depressing really.