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Google's practice of requiring Gmail addresses for user accounts is illegal, according to a German court ruling. The parent company of GMX and Web.de (Ionos) had filed a lawsuit. (www.zdfheute.de)

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[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How is it that one day the EU or some EU country is saving the day on this stuff, then the next they're about to decrypt everything?

Y'all, the world is falling the fuck apart. Right now, in real time. We need somewhere safe. Somewhere that isn't trying to fucking rifle through our pockets every minute of every day.

The robots in the Matrix were more chill than Google right now.

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How is it that one day the EU or some EU country is saving the day on this stuff, then the next they're about to decrypt everything?

It's a huge organisation with different people in different offices working on different things. There's no individual in charge of making sure all those things are consistent.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

I know, the whiplash is just a lot right now, and EU is not quick to harmonize policy issues like this.

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

One is law and the other is drafting of laws without confirmed majorities.