It really has, Android actually has privacy controls now which they definitely didn't in 2013. Developers can't request your location 24/7 without you even being aware of it like they could 10 years ago.
The point of the slides was Google, not third party developers. I feel things have gotten worst. Google controls not only the device itself, but also most people’s browser and tools when they decide to use something else.
Sorry, disqualified according to your own arbitrary rules.
And regarding AI startups there's about a bazillion of them in EU, just as in the US. Sure, ChatGPT was invented by a US company but you can't really claim that there's "nothing" in the EU. Just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Yeah, well, I don't have any statistics here, it's just what I notice in my everyday life: many more startups and services coming from USA and almost none from EU. UIPath is the only one I know of, I think.
But I am happy to be proved wrong, thats why I asked in the first place.
Considering they keep racking up fines I seriously doubt it. It's become like banking regulation, fines are just a cost of doing business and you just have to factor in the percent chance of getting caught times average size of fine vs revenue.
But banking regulation still has an effect on any entity that can't afford to be continuously fighting lawsuits and paying fines.
And actual changes happens on many of these cases. An entity getting fined three of four times for different offenses doesn't mean they never fix any of the issues.
An easy example could be Google, who've been a target of so many of these complaints, and made many adjustment, up to building separate data centers with separate management rules to deal with the EU situation.
Mandated USB-C was good, swappable batteries that's coming in a few years as well. GDPR was mostly useless and the only real consequence is more cookie banners that people accept as a knee jerk reaction and a lot of money that went to lawyers and "consultants" which helped smaller businesses get "GDPR ready".
Chat control is not really tech regulation though, even if it affects tech the proposal is written by people who have no idea what the fuck they are doing. Ylva Johansson (The MEP responsible for it) has even said straight out she has no idea if or how this should be complied with but "They will figure it out" (They being tech companies). With people like that deciding our laws of course you end up with shit like this.
I would disagree with that. I like being able to download a copy of all my data from all these big websites. Since I no longer use Twitter/X, it's nice to have a copy of everything I have posted there.
As someone that worked in an EEA tech company when the GDPR was actually being implemented, it absolutely did a ton for improving how much focus there was on privacy and PII security. That has seemed to be true for the places I've worked since too, from what I've heard.
Most companies still have no good process for data deletion or export, and I am fairly convinced it would be even more dire if people hadn't started preparing for the GDPR years ahead.
It was enforceable before too, thanks to the Data Protection Directive from 1995. GDPR is an harmonization of the various national transcriptions of the DPD, plus higher fines, a better cooperation mechanism, and data portability (which is a bit useless but it's nice to have). Cookie banners also predate GDPR (it was the ePrivacy directive).
> Yes, but now with gdpr it's enforceable, what if twit decides to stop providing that data?
Why would you want a law with high compliance costs to solve a problem that was already solved? It makes no sense to impose the costs unless the thing it purports to solve actually presents as a problem.
Mandated USB-C disincentives ever improving on the connector. The EU attempted to enforce a similar mandate for micro-USB back in the day - can you imagine if they succeeded? Fortunately, we got Lightning and USB-C thereafter, but improvement is always possible.
Product design doesn't need to be written into law.
Lightning originated when there was a talk about mandating micro-USB and finally died, after 11 years, when USB-C was mandated. If not for that legislation it would still be alive.
Not remotely the same for micro usb. It wasn't the same law.
Now it will be a chicken and egg problem. No one will want to put a new connector in phones, because they'd need usb c too anyways. So no new standard will emerge with wide enough industry support. If the micro usb "mandate" was as binding and restrictive as this one, we would not have had usb c.
> No one will want to put a new connector in phones, because they'd need usb c too anyways.
This is why the USB Implimentation Forum exists. If you want to put a new connector in phones, do it; just do it through the proper, standardized and official channels. If every manufacturer had their own competing charging standard, we would be back to square 1 with 15 different ways to route serial data and 15w of juice. As companies like Apple have so gratefully demonstrated, most companies tend to invent those chargers for licensing royalties rather than a willingness to push the envelope on charging or data transfer technology.
Good. I don't want a company to create and monopolize some arbitrary improvement over the current technology. I want those developments to be forced into standardization to compete, and offer backwards-compatibility just like USB does.
And plus... it's a serial cable. The demand for "research and development" has remained the same since they figured out how to flatten the type B connector. You can't fool anybody by releasing a 'new and improved' cable or connector that is just the same serial bus with proprietary mumbo-jumbo on top.
When it comes to charging and serial standards which have not meaningfully evolved in over a decade... yeah. It would be kinda nice to trade marginal improvement for compatibility and stability. The USB-C connector is not limiting smartphone data or charging speeds anyways.
The EU just mandated a charging standard. It didn’t mandate that Apple go whole hog implementing the USB 3.1 protocol including video over USB C - all things that the typical Android phone doesn’t do.
Regular iPhone is midrange - it has USB 2.0, and yet it just started to be sold. Apparently 23 years old solution is still ok for lots of the people.
When do you think mobile devices will be limited by USB-C? Another 20 years? Is it worth for you to allow mess, vendor locks and ripping of customers for another quarter of century, because some magic connector that solves problem we don't know exists can be delayed by 2-3 years? Really?
Anti-competitive practices from corporations delay progress way more than that.
I guess power cords and power plugs landed on perfect designs. It's weird how there are so many different "perfect" power plugs though.
A periodic review process won't matter. Somebody has to actually research, design and create an alternative. Why would they spend resources on that if their competitors can just decide that they're not allowed to use it?
Not at all, I think it achieved exactly what it was designed to do. The part where we blindly accept cookie banners without holding companies accountable for doing so much tracking (or put them in place without questioning if they're needed) is totally on us.
GDPR did give us the tools and the means, we just don't take full advantage of them.
According to that same page the trend is also moving worryingly upwards (Utvecklingen sedan 1990).
So to answer the OP's question (Instead of trying to cheat by answering a completely different question) it's about 2x worse now than 10 years ago. The fact that we were once on this level before is completely irrelevant.
jQuery is a bit of a poor example in the context since most of the stuff jQuery provides HAS been integrated into the standard making the lib obsolete. If the ES standard introduces types in a good way that will of course make TS obsolete.
At the very least, that's an issue that GMP or other projects shouldn't have to worry about. There are many options - you could manually cache things somewhere or pack in the dependencies in the repo. Or, maybe, in a world that wasn't completely set on wasting all resources possible, there just wouldn't be pointless automatic builds on forks, and those builds wouldn't need to re-download the world and could instead just incrementally update. (yes, there are nice consequences of doing fresh builds always, but there are also bad ones as can be seen, and unfortunately the downsides aren't seen by the initiator)
It's not available in the US either. The latest list I can find says it's being tested in Belgium, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, and Luxembourg.
When doing those vpn tricks to get lower pricing you run the risk of services terminating your account and that's something a lot of people can't afford when it comes to their google accounts
