Hans-Christoph Steiner@RandamuMaki @GrapheneOS Someone who said they were from GrapheneOS posted an question in the online forum of the #DMAWorkshop. When the #Alphabet people dodged, I reformulated the question and asked in there in person. They dodged again, claiming they didn't know what #Google #PlayIntegrity and #GMS meant. Looks like calculated ignorance since those are key to their abusive, trust-building behaviors. #gatekeepers only send competition lawyers to #DMA events so they can dodge technical details.
For anyone who wants to relive the #Alphabet #DMAWorkshop the video has been released:
#DMA #compliance #competition #EC #EuropeanCommission #EU #gatekeepers #monopoly #mobile #Google #AI #GooglePlay #GooglePlayServices #GoogleFree #EDRi #FSFE #FDroid
For anyone who wants to relive the #Apple #DMAWorkshop the video has been released:
#DMA #compliance #competition #EC #EuropeanCommission #EU #gatekeepers #monopoly #mobile
#Google presented their AI-based app review at #DMAWorkshop. Many apps are falsely flagged by #GooglePlay. Lots of trusted app developers built their reputation on free and open source software #Nextcloud #Signal #Thunderbird and more. These developers welcome more scrutiny on their source code. Why doesn't Google Play allow app developers to upload source code to provide more accurate reviews? How about requiring Google's own apps go through the same review?
@ilumium @GrapheneOS @article19 When I asked #Google a follow-up question using Google's own terminology, like #PlayIntegrity #GMS etc. their team of three competition lawyers brushed it aside saying they didn't understand the acronyms. They did not let me clarify. This is a classic example of the Google lawyers being conveniently #ignorant of the key details of things the Google Play team does that nicely props up their monopoly.
#DMA #DMAWorkshop #DigitalMarketsAct #GooglePlay #EC #policy
Given that technical details are key to many of the questions of #DMA enforcement, why doesn't #Alphabet include technical staff in these compliance workshops? It feels to me that they want to stick strictly to an evasive legal strategy rather than constructively engage with the technical community around #Android.
#Google #DigitalMarketsAct #DMAWorkshop #EC #EuropeanCommission
A question to #Google about whether they could allowlist apps for sideloading they know to be legit. They punted and gave a weak attempt at a technical reason. They say their is a 100 million apps out there, so how could they ever? And malicious apps can impersonate the Application ID. Sure, true, but they could also allowlist based on all the signing keys, which cannot be simply faked and they already manage in #GooglePlay
#DigitalMarketsAct #Alphabet #EuropeanCommission #EC #DMA #DMAWorkshop
And that concludes my reporting on the #DMAWorkshop, thanks to the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web #FFDW and their grant to @guardianproject for paying my way. https://www.ffdweb.org/guardian-project-annoucement/ - https://f-droid.org/en/2022/02/05/decentralizing-distribution.html
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Congrats to #matrix co-founder @matthew for rocking the last #DMAWorkshop, there was still quite a bit of buzz about how the live bridging demo carried a ton of weight, despite the lobbying efforts from #Meta, you can see it at around 14:00 in the live stream recording https://webcast.ec.europa.eu/dma-workshop-2023-02-27