If Apple is the only organisation defending our privacy, it is time to worry

Re:If Apple is the only organisation defending our privacy, ... by throwaway481048 on Monday May 24, 2021 @12:35AM (#27261105)

Apple should not have to lead the charge for user privacy. The government (particularly Congress, in some cases State Legislatures) needs to step up and create modern rules for a modern society.

While you can’t “cook up” new laws as quickly as an engineer can a prototype, trusting a private entity - with only the power to regulate its own devices and activity - is foolish, if just merely in scope. The interests of a private org just complicate the picture further.

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Re:If Apple is the only organisation defending our privacy, ... by theshrike79 on Monday May 24, 2021 @01:09AM (#27261248)

EU has GDPR and California has CCPA.

Y'all just need to get your elected officials to copy & paste CCPA to a federal level.

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Re:If Apple is the only organisation defending our privacy, ... by Nextgrid on Monday May 24, 2021 @06:57AM (#27262954)

To be fair, the GDPR is only good in theory but its enforcement has been severely lacking, as demonstrated by all the companies suddenly complaining about App Tracking Transparency, despite ATT only mandating what they should've done to comply with the GDPR anyway 3 years ago.

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Re:If Apple is the only organisation defending our privacy, ... by theshrike79 on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @01:11AM (#27286631)

Yea, GRPD and the cookie thing could use some extra supervision and enforcement.

People are mostly going by hunches and third hand knowledge on these.

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