Again, we owe it to these 7 #WCK volunteers to watch The #Gatekeepers, a documentary by an Israeli filmmaker who managed to interview 6 former directors of #ShinBet.
The #DigitalMarketsAct mandates Meta to "enable end users to freely choose to opt-in to [combining or cross-using personal data] by offering a less personalised but equivalent alternative".
When I pointed out to Meta that by offering users to either #consent to #SurveillanceAds or pay € 275 per year for #Instagram & #Facebook isn't "equivalent alternative" they said, Meta has to do that because of #GDPR 😤 Really??
tl;dr wrap-up from my 3rd day of #DMA compliance workshops with #gatekeepers: while #Google / #Alphabet seems to fare slightly better than #Apple in terms of compliance plans (from a digital rights perspective that is, I'm sure price comparison and hotel industries would disagree), there is still some way to go before the proposed changes can be called satisfactory. 🙊
And just to be clear: Google is still a terrible #privacy violator, the DMA will hardly change that.
"#Meta says it's turning on third-party interoperability as a part of its efforts to comply with the #EU's Digital Markets Act (#DMA), which was passed to prevent large tech #gatekeepers from preventing fair market competition or otherwise dominating the region's digital landscape. The DMA also calls for tech gatekeepers like Meta to provide #interoperability."
iodé proudly signed an Open Letter that was handed a few days ago by @fsfe Europe to the Digital Affairs Committee at the German Bundestag on the universal right to install any software on any device.
@EU_Commission
This is actually great! What are the penalties, random blocking of the services at the network level?
Although we prefer the term #technoFeudalists to describe these entities (and entities #Microshaft, T'site Buyer, Akamai, Oracle, Alibaba, and Tencent which appear to be absent in the legislation), the term '#gatekeepers' is a fairly good indictment.
The companies that have said they qualify as "#gatekeepers" under the #EU law are Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft, and Samsung. Gatekeepers are companies with an annual turnover in Europe of at least €7.5 billion (among a few other requirements)
They are prohibited from favoring their own services over rivals and from locking users into their ecosystem. They must allow 3rd parties to interoperate in their ecosystem. Compliance begins in #2024.
I absolutely LOVE how several people have came out swinging against #gatekeepers and #hoa attitudes. The #fediverse is changing irrespective to whether anyone likes it or not.