Articles like these never fail to drive home just how much of a US patsy the EU has always been.
And here comes China that basically says from the start to all foreign companies: "You give us half, or you're out. Take it or leave it. And we still get to impose whatever regulations, official or unofficial, want, depending on our mood. We'll also turn a blind eye to local Chinese companies completely ripping off your technology. Sounds good?"
I'd love to see an American's reaction to a speech where Xi Jinping exclaims that he will ensure that all Americans start using Baidu as their search engine.
I actually bought a N900 back in the day. It was good. Nokia smartphones could have been a thing, not just because they were good, but they'd taken off just a few years later especially on privacy grounds. There's not nearly enough conspiracy theorizing about Elop blatantly Osborning Maemo...
Do Europeans really care that much about privacy? As an outsider, I don't see much fighting for privacy coming from Europe.
> blatant commercial spyware operation like Google or Facebook
What kind of regulation do you think would stop this "spyware" as you call it? Are you really going to restrict an internet firm from collecting user information with the user's consent and then selling that information? What regulation would you do?
Something like "right to be forgotten" is the absolute worst direction to go. When I first heard about it, I knew the regulators were idiots. That is patently opposed to free expression.
Why would anyone care?
I'm poking fun at Trump's nationalistic brouhaha concluding this article.
China is rising.
Don't you think that GDP per capita would be a better indicator, perhaps?
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?end=20...
What will the comparison be in one more generation?