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If you own a #SmartPhone (most of us DO), you're absolutely reliant on Google and/or Apple, who can choose to F*** you over through malice , complacency, or incompetence at any time

There are countless stories where people are locked out of their accounts for some vague reason & the most they can do is complain, then start over

This Wired reporter wrote about how "all of his data was destroyed" a few years ago:

https://www.wired.com/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/

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There are countless stories about people getting wrongfully locked out of Google accounts (forever) for "belated" copyright strikes that are filed against them years after posting something (that almost assuredly counted as fair use) to a YouTube far in the past

Or stories about people getting locked out of their account for (G-rated) pics of their own kids getting swept up in one of Google's filters

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If you're in the US, SCOTUS has (effectively) perpetually decided in favor of US corporations having an eternal ability to be able to retroactively change Terms of Service/ Terms of Use in their own favor to deny you any accountability, despite the fact that the vast majority of US residents do not possess the capability to read & comprehend thousands of pages of legal docs that these companies generate every year (across services)

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You can have 'everything':
- intellectual property/ creative works
- games, media, etc.
- services that you've already paid for
- years worth of pictures, videos, and other memories.
- proof of purchase
- legal agreements w/ other providers
- the ability to complete MFA or account recovery (for other services)
- basically your entire "digital life" stolen and/or deleted on a whim, with no accountability from the provider

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World govts need to be working on legislation that;
- prevents service providers from completely locking you out of your accounts/deleting your data
- creates harsh penalties for cloud providers who fail to maintain the 'CIA" for your data
- creates significant penalties for building systems that allow for accounts or account data to easily be stolen by 3rd parties/ attackers

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There also needs to be a series of systems in place that guarantees that all data and purchases are portable (in a DRM free format) to another provider.

I.E. I should be able to access purchased books or movies on any platform available in my country. Same with games, services, & other apps.

This portability should absolutely be required w/ a portion of their "app store" payout reserved until DRM free data portability has been ensured

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To phrase that differently, when customers pay to purchase an app or movie, both the storefront provider (Apple, Google, Amazon, etc.) & the seller should have a percentage of the original sale price withheld until both can certify that DRM free data portability has been completed

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If I buy a Game on Gplay, Google should be capped being paid for 10% of the purchase price w/ the rest withheld until they have registered my purchase w/ an independent (not for profit + advertising free) organization that I can then tie to other digital video game storefronts (example, GOG or Itch), where I can download a DRM-free copy w/o needing Google at all.