Hi, developer of a top-rated app in the Play Store [AnkiDroid].
What do I need to do to make a difference, and how much time will this take?
[My elected officials listen, what's the path? Legislation?]
What do I need to do to make a difference, and how much time will this take?
[My elected officials listen, what's the path? Legislation?]
EU or US?
> what's the path? Legislation?
Send them a letter explaining why this is bad for you. Keep it strictly factual and ideally concise. Copy Google’s legal [1] and any relevant digital or markets regulators. (If in the US, don’t forget your state regulators.)
Wait two weeks and then call the elected. Make sure they’re aware, and talk through your options. Send a letter thanking them for the call, incorporating any new information and actions they said they would take, and copy all of the previous parties again.
More work: reach out to other top developers and organise an open letter. This will be hard because everyone wants to include their pet issue and everyone will fight over scope and language.
The way to do this is funding an amicus curiae.
Now there's also this new requirement, and it's shocking the EU hasn't responded yet. Weren't we supposed to make ourselves more independent from US technology? But i wouldn't be surprised someone would be lobbying on google's behalf to convince the politicians that "trust me bro, google play is more secure"
https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/contact-dma-team_en
Neither, sadly.
Thanks for the link. I have neither the time nor inclination to be a figurehead, but I can have conversations once I feel there's a reasonable/achievable outcome. I'll put some thought into it.
If you want to make a difference, try to communicate with someone from OEM companies. Google is making their phones inferior and they'll loose money and market share because of it.
After this change, "I can install NewPipe and Ad blockers" will become a major selling point for Chinese phones among large and profitable segments of the population. And that high-end manufacturers might as well give up and let Apple take that part of the market. If OEMs can be made to understand that, that's going to be the end of this initiative.
You’re correct, but for the wrong reasons. Privacy framings don’t work because people who care about privacy are unusually politically nihilistic and/or lazy. I’ve worked on privacy legislation. I’ve also worked on other laws. Nobody calls or writes about the former. With the latter, it was almost trivial to demonstrate to the elected that there was real political capital in embracing the issue.
The special interest of a particular group always result in far more intense support than any law that benefits the public at large. And privacy is usually a general concern.
Also, am I the only one who finds the idea that you need to demonstrate the existence of political capital to elected politicians concerning? (As opposed to persuading them that it's the right thing to do.) I don't want to sidetrack the whole discussion, but this makes me doubt the future of western democracy in a hundred different ways.