Re:Messenger API Updates for Europe
by hombre_fatal on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @09:47AM
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Heh, my cable TV provider in Mexico came with a remote control with a fat "Netflix" button on it for easy access.
While useful to people, most of whom want to just go to Netflix, that level of integration doesn't feel right.
Re:Messenger API Updates for Europe
by robin_reala on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @09:50AM
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It’s not illegal if you get user consent. I signed up (in Sweden) for a mobile contract with free Apple Music data last year, and they made a big thing of getting consent for them to do DPI to get that.
It’s actually somewhat of a grey area due to net neutrality regulations. Those are EU-wide, but up to the local regulation authority to interpret, which means that a regulator in Portugal or Sweden says it’s cool, in The Netherlands that any music service (sadly not your own Plex) can apply to be delimited, and in yet another EU country it might be completely illegal.
It is probably illegal (on the paper we have net neutrality, the telcos just blatantly break the law) to do so in Sweden which why some telcos are in a legal battle with our regulatory authority.