🧐 Google’s plan would mean that all personal data of #FreeSoftware app developers on Android would end up with #Google, even apps distributed outside the Play Store, by forcing developers to register and hand over ID.
❌️ It raises barriers for small and volunteer projects, like @fdroidorg, and increases the risk of surveillance, censorship, and arbitrary bans against privacy‑protecting and critical apps.
📢 What we ask from #Google:
- Rescind mandatory developer registration for all third‑party distribution.
- Engage in transparent dialogue with civil society, #FreeSoftware communities, and regulators on improving security without sacrificing openness.
- Commit to platform neutrality so that Google’s role as Android steward does not conflict with its commercial interests.
🫵 What you can do
- Read and share the open letter: https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/
- If you are part of an organisation, join the signatories from across civil society, #FreeSoftware communities, and industry.
- Please help so that Google also understands it is not in its interest to jeopardise its own success in mobile by making Android unfriendly to developers who care about #softwarefreedom
@meanmicio @fsfe @pine64 @jolla @volla Linux spent last 20 years sleeping. That's it.
Also arm systems sucks, and are unsustainable.
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Free Software Foundation Europe
FSFE signed an open letter addressed to Sundar Pichai, CEO of 
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