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With the time, Canonical has grown and created internal structures as a big-tech, especially how employees are evaluated. With my mostly external work I got a victim of it and they laid me off. All my colleagues do not really understand why I got fired, as they consider my work really important. Got ~30 "I am really sad that you have to go, you do not deserve it, you are doing great work" answers to my good-bye e-mail
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The EU’s prototype age verification app is under fire for planning to use Google’s Play Integrity API 🔍
Critics say this could restrict non-Google Android users, harm digital sovereignty, and contradict the EU’s own antitrust stance 🇪🇺
Developers are urging alternatives like Yivi, which work without Google’s ecosystem 🛡️
https://www.neowin.net/news/eus-new-age-verification-app-faces-criticism-over-google-dependence/
#EU #Europe #Privacy #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #AgeVerification #Google #Antitrust #TechPolicy #Cybersecurity #Freedom