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We now have a new round of anti privacy bills (www.eff.org)

submitted 1 year ago by possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] archomrade@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Way late to this, but:

First: it doesn't say "illegal", it says "prohibited". Could be (and probably is) talking about apps prohibited either by the device manufacturer or apps that are otherwise legal but copied from another device (i.e. loaded through a 3rd party app store)

Second: the use of the "illegal" app should be the illegal thing, not the side-loading of it on your device. In your analogy, growing any plants in your house at all would be the new restriction, on top of weed being illegal (for now)