I emailed the EU (COMP-DMA@ec.europa.eu) explaining why I think #Google's new anti #sideload measures are problematic.
They responded stating they "welcome feedback from interested parties", noting that the #DMA does allow "strictly necessary and proportionate measures to ensure [3rd party apps/stores] do not endanger the [hardware or OS] or to [allow users to effectively protect security]".
May be worth sending an email explaining your opinion on the necessity and proportionality :)
Sylvia
in reply to Sylvia • • •Of course, if you do: don't spam them, be nice to them (they're our friends here!), give them *useful* info and context, try to explain it well.
But know that, yes, the EU has an email they actually listen to. Seems much more useful than screaming on Mastodon :)
Buccia
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in reply to Buccia • • •@BucciaBuccia I'm always very disappointed with enforcement but one thing I notice is that everyone is always yelling on social media, but no complaints reach the correct groups.
When I complained about Stocard's GDPR export, one of the arguments they had to not punish Stocard was because this "was the first complaint they received on Stocard" and thus it was "not indicative of purposeful misbehaviour".
It shouldn't be our responsibility to monitor but it still seems worth trying to alert them
Sylvia
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