Well they are mandated to stop preventing other from opening up the engine bay
I do get it, EU parties get 90% of their funding from the government, donations are transparent. Candidates can’t get donations, only the party. Spending limits exist. the European Parliament (EP) is a non-majoritarian institution where policy-making takes place through concessions and collaboration. Currently private donations are limited to maximum 10% of a parties budget and is set to shrink to 5%.
Forcing the vote or voting against the party line happens all the time and is normal. I would dare to say EU is 100 years ahead of USA when it comes to anti corruption and real democratic influence.
Yep it’s been pushed, but fortunately elected officials can’t propose laws but just ask for an investigation to the commission, a legislative body run by civil servants who a few months late came to the conclusion we must have encryption
The Council today adopted a resolution on encryption, highlighting the need for security through encryption and security despite encryption.
www.consilium.europa.eu
It’s a fragmented market you can’t easily compete in as every app is locked to their group. SMS is barely used today. And even tho you can register your WhatsApp, iMessage, Viber, WeChat, signal etc with your phone number you are still unable to send text communications to these groups without downloading the app and they can’t text me without me also downloading the same app. Interoperability on the basic level would allow users more freedom to use any application according to its functions and custom protocols. If RCS( includes E2EE) was used as the fallback standard between different platforms (or something else) it would still allow iMessage to use it’s proprietary system to other imessage users and RCS to other phones or apps such as signal or WhatsApp instead of SMS or needing to download a new app.
this was not a company decision but a worker’s group where everyone communicated with each other. Checking if someone could change days, get more supplies, ask for help etc etc. it was the group chat because not everyone have iPhones, not everyone have Facebook so everyone is forced to use WhatsApp instead of their preferred program
You can have two standards without sacrificing your advantage. iPhone have Bluetooth but can use the H1 chip for superior experience with beats and apple headphones. AirPods Pro can still connect to android or windows devices over Bluetooth and still use H1 chip for iOS unique features.
Mac and iOS have Wi-Fi, but still have airplay that you can only use to other apple conpatib products and TVs as a uneque feature, security and selling point. Etc etc
They don’t need to use RCS. No standard is proposed, but the industry will have to decide for themselves as always. Eu have never mandated a security standard, they regularly dictate minimum standards or minimum requirements that periodically gets stricter in a bid to encourage industry stakeholders to collaborate and develop standards.
Eu compared to USA don’t care to dictate how you do something, just provide qualifications you need to meet in whatever way you deep appropriate.
Eu talked with phone manufacturer to come together and try to and agree to standard port. And everyone in the industry signed this agreement. Now 10 years later EU have decided to force the TYP-C contact everyone else uses to be standard because apple failed to follow the agreement to work for a common charging solution. Apple could have proposed a new lightning port as the standard but didn’t. Now in the future the port will change when the group agrees to change it
