@EU_Commission
UK? Nada. Do what you like because Brexit took away the UK's ability to stand up to corporations.

@EU_Commission please, please can the UK join the single market, so we can have proper GDPR back, and Standards applied to produce imported for sale. The Aussie beef can come, just can't be sold in the UK for consumption.

@EU_Commission Windows? 🤨

@EU_Commission
I'll believe it, when I see it.
I can't see Amazon removing "Stopping ranking their products more favourably" anytime soon.

@EU_Commission User protections.

What concept.

The US should try it sometime.

@EU_Commission I really like what the #EU is doing for consumer rights and data protection. What happens when the companies don’t do what they are supposed to?

@EU_Commission
Companies with a bad track record are now gatekeepers?

@EU_Commission @eingfoan Let's see what loopholes they will find in that law.

And I am sure they will do everything they can to fulfill only the absolutely bare minimum and argue there way out of everything as much as possible.

We will see what will change after the 6 months. 🫣

@EU_Commission Being able to install apps outside the AppStore on my iPhone would be awesome. But I'm definitely not looking forward for the appearance of things like the Epic Store for iPhone

@EU_Commission @quixoticgeek No Samsung?

@EU_Commission
No X/Twitter on platform services ?

@EU_Commission No Bing, No iMessage, etc. This is just a bad joke 😠

@EU_Commission 👏👍✊👍👏

@EU_Commission car companies next?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/06/cars-collect-extensive-personal-data-on-drivers-study-warns?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

@EU_Commission excellent! Any chance you can talk to your American counterparts 😅

@EU_Commission I wonder why Google didn't make the list, are they not hitting these bullets? The last one (ranking) seems like it would qualify

@EU_Commission no mention of Twitch? Kind of weird to me.

@EU_Commission As a strange aside, I wrote software for iOS around iOS 1.4, prior to the existence of an official SDK (Software Development Kit). It wasn't that difficult, and there wasn't even an App Store at the time.

Though there were already alternatives, such as the Cydia front-end for APK. And they still exist, so does Apple already pass muster on that front?

You have also been able to remove pre-installed applications, just like third-party installed ones, for some time.

@EU_Commission how will the EU hold accountable instance admins? How will you enforce those that are not GDPR compliant?

@EU_Commission I would like these digital gatekeepers pay us if they sell our data for marketing and advertising purposes even if you have opted out of their programs, because they'll just re-add you to their data collection at a later date when they believe you have forgotten. There's no true guarantee that once you've opted out of something they won't just add you back to them again, or keep bugging you to opt-in again with popups.