Re:EFF and EU should respond to Google taking FairEmail off ...
by prepend on Thursday May 19, 2022 @11:27AM
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Imagine if the power company cut off people’s electricity in error 1/10 of the time. That’s insane and dangerous.
Apps are an important part of the economy and having a false positive rate of 10% when the consequence is severely harming a company is unacceptable.
Not sure if it means regulators should get involved but Google (and to a certain extent Apple) have had this problem for many years and it doesn’t seem like market forces are going to change their policy.
I think the angle to take here is that Google is being anticompetitive by blocking a mail competitor from Android. So I think anti-trust is the existing set of laws that apply and hopefully will be pursued.
Hopefully it’s just Google’s stupidity and not malice, but I think all the data to determine that is private and confidential to Google so requires some legal compulsion for evidence in order to investigate.
Apps are an important part of the economy and having a false positive rate of 10% when the consequence is severely harming a company is unacceptable.
Not sure if it means regulators should get involved but Google (and to a certain extent Apple) have had this problem for many years and it doesn’t seem like market forces are going to change their policy.
I think the angle to take here is that Google is being anticompetitive by blocking a mail competitor from Android. So I think anti-trust is the existing set of laws that apply and hopefully will be pursued.
Hopefully it’s just Google’s stupidity and not malice, but I think all the data to determine that is private and confidential to Google so requires some legal compulsion for evidence in order to investigate.