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Re:Google is already pushing WEI (web DRM) into Chromium by shadowgovt on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @09:42AM (#36877553)
What sort of regulation do we imagine a government putting into place to stop this? If anything, governments tend to lean in favor of identification and verification systems because they make corporate commerce run more smoothly.
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Re:Google is already pushing WEI (web DRM) into Chromium by insanitybit on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @11:54AM (#36879838)
It's not hard to imagine legislation around a user right to ownership of their device. For example, it could be made illegal for a website to attest that a user is not running specific software.

Legislation around device ownership rights are already present, especially in the EU.

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