Many state and public administrations from Helsinki to Lisbon operate with the software of the US corporation. It makes them vulnerable for hackers and spies, violates European public procurement l...
The real problem is the cellphone market: people literally can’t live without a cellphone anymore. Iin many countries, a cellphone is an absolute necessity to do basic things like banking or dealing with the administration. And virtually all cellphones are under the control, and under the heavy surveillance of two American Big Data monopolies.
That means many countries have virtually surrendered their sovereignty to broligarchs from a country that is well on its way to becoming a full-blown fascist state because of those damn miniature surveillance devices that virtually nobody can live without anymore.
Let me rephrase this in blunter terms: ALL IT TAKES IS ONE WORD FROM TRUMP TO ORDER GOOGLE AND APPLE TO CRIPPLE A COUNTRY’S INFRASTRUCTURE!
This has been scaring me for a very long time and I just don’t understand how it’s never seemed to scare any elected officials in any country that proclaims to care about the sovereignty of their nation.
The video has multiple arguments, yes security is one, but the that stands out to me is that Microsoft is dictating the terms of agreement with national governments and hiding how tax payer money is used. Governments have just accepted to support a monopoly.
The phone in your pocket is a private choice and not done on behalf of others.
The phone in your pocket is a private choice and not done on behalf of others.
And I argue that it really isn’t.
In many country, you need a phone. Not want, need. And your choice is Google or Apple. Some choice…
And before you tell me there are custom privacy-oriented Android ROMs, Linux phones and PinePhones, more often than not, they’re not an option: if your bank’s secure app or your government’s mandated ID app won’t run on a non-Google or non-Apple OS, you’re back to having to buy a Google or Apple surveillance device.
Do you need a phone or do you need access to the internet?
We have an ID system here that most have on the phone, but there is a dongle alternative for those that don’t have smartphones. Everything else just needs a browser.
Of course the argument could just repeat, everything is based on Chrome almost.
Microsoft is only a small part of the problem
The real problem is the cellphone market: people literally can’t live without a cellphone anymore. Iin many countries, a cellphone is an absolute necessity to do basic things like banking or dealing with the administration. And virtually all cellphones are under the control, and under the heavy surveillance of two American Big Data monopolies.
That means many countries have virtually surrendered their sovereignty to broligarchs from a country that is well on its way to becoming a full-blown fascist state because of those damn miniature surveillance devices that virtually nobody can live without anymore.
Let me rephrase this in blunter terms: ALL IT TAKES IS ONE WORD FROM TRUMP TO ORDER GOOGLE AND APPLE TO CRIPPLE A COUNTRY’S INFRASTRUCTURE!
This has been scaring me for a very long time and I just don’t understand how it’s never seemed to scare any elected officials in any country that proclaims to care about the sovereignty of their nation.
The video has multiple arguments, yes security is one, but the that stands out to me is that Microsoft is dictating the terms of agreement with national governments and hiding how tax payer money is used. Governments have just accepted to support a monopoly.
The phone in your pocket is a private choice and not done on behalf of others.
And I argue that it really isn’t.
In many country, you need a phone. Not want, need. And your choice is Google or Apple. Some choice…
And before you tell me there are custom privacy-oriented Android ROMs, Linux phones and PinePhones, more often than not, they’re not an option: if your bank’s secure app or your government’s mandated ID app won’t run on a non-Google or non-Apple OS, you’re back to having to buy a Google or Apple surveillance device.
Do you need a phone or do you need access to the internet?
We have an ID system here that most have on the phone, but there is a dongle alternative for those that don’t have smartphones. Everything else just needs a browser.
Of course the argument could just repeat, everything is based on Chrome almost.