Yes, the lawmakers are writing laws as if all devices are built by either Apple or Google, and as a result we risk ending up in a situation exactly like that. They are setting us up on a path where encryption is no longer a technology that we can use to protect ourselves, but a technology which the american big tech companies use to prevent us from changing the behavior of the devices that we supposedly own. In the beginning with the goal of preventing children from accessing social media, but eventually with the goal of making it impossible to turn off surveillance. Meanwhile Google will happily comply: a nice side effect for them is that it also becomes impossible to block ads, and the narrative becomes that it is the lawmakers that are forcing their hand.
Yes, the lawmakers are writing laws as if all devices are built by either Apple or Google, and as a result we risk ending up in a situation exactly like that. They are setting us up on a path where encryption is no longer a technology that we can use to protect ourselves, but a technology which the american big tech companies use to prevent us from changing the behavior of the devices that we supposedly own. In the beginning with the goal of preventing children from accessing social media, but eventually with the goal of making it impossible to turn off surveillance. Meanwhile Google will happily comply: a nice side effect for them is that it also becomes impossible to block ads, and the narrative becomes that it is the lawmakers that are forcing their hand.