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If OP is in Europe Google could be drawn and quartered for GDPR violations.

• hilbert42 2y ago
  Exactly!
• kleiba 2y ago
  "could" being the point here - as Joe Bloke, you're not going to get yourself into a legal dispute with Google, but it's not very hard to return an electronic device as an ordinary end consumer when it's still under warranty.
  • nottorp 2y ago
    You don't need to sue Google, just file a complaint with whatever the GDPR authority is in your country ...
    • zazazache 2y ago
      Better to just contact NOYB directly, they are responsible for about 50% of all GDPR fines to date. Outside of Norway the DPAs seem mostly useless, especially when it comes to big tech…
    • kleiba 2y ago
      I'd be interested to know if anyone on HN has actually done that in the past, and what the experience was?
      • robin_reala 2y ago
        Confiks managed to get Spotify to reinstate the API that allowed connections to SongShift with a GDPR complaint about the right to data portability (or threat thereof): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24764371 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24764371
  • dgellow 2y ago
    Anyone can submit a complaint: https://www.edps.europa.eu/data-protection/our-role-supervisor/complaints_en https://www.edps.europa.eu/data-protection/our-role-supervis...
  • Matthyze 2y ago
    That's not how the GDPR works. Just like criminal procedure, subjects do not sue alleged offenders themselves. The state instead sues on their behalf.
• mardifoufs 2y ago
  GPDR forbids local OCR? Can you be more specific