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Re:Senate panel approves antitrust bill restricting big tech... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday January 20, 2022 @05:47PM (#30016422)
> An app can lie about what it does, and nothing at a technical level can prevent that

I was thinking of the tracking restrictions when I wrote this. The OS simply doesn’t give the app the data.

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Re:Senate panel approves antitrust bill restricting big tech... by zepto on Thursday January 20, 2022 @05:53PM (#30016510)
It’s much harder than that to prevent fingerprinting, or the use of legitimate APIs for illegitimate purposes.

In any case the idea that you can achieve privacy and security solely through managing APIs is simply false.

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