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Re:Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied req... by wtallis on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @02:59PM (#48465891)
> It could instead require third parties to improve theirs.

Apple made it sound like their proposal for that was rejected by the EU. And it would be consistent with previous regulatory decisions by the EU for them to not want Apple to be setting the rules for how third-party interoperability partners/competitors ensure privacy.

It seems to me that the EU has a preference for protecting privacy with legal mechanisms, and generally doesn't approve of Apple's attempts to protect privacy with technical mechanisms because that inevitably limits interoperability with systems that aren't designed around the same restrictions and assumptions.

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Re:Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied req... by dd8601fn on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @08:15PM (#48469571)
I’m sure they love it when Apple says, “Well… they COULD give is their models to put in private compute, but we’re not paying them for that and they’re not getting any more data than we get, ourselves. Which is exactly none.”
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