Petr Janda

I’m not a lawyer , but common sense dictates if you are going to make an app that’s possibly illegal, you won’t do it unless you are satisfied that it is legal. As far as comparing the sheltering of Jews illegally who were facing extermination and people who entered a country illegally is like saying I broke all the speed limit rules to attend an exam because I saw a person doing the same for a valid emergency. I’m not saying what Trump is doing is right at all, it’s reprehensible, but don’t try to equate it with the attempt to delete Jews from existence. It’s absolutely fucking ridiculous .

Owning device is not the same as owning the right to the software that runs on it. Google is well within their rights to say if you want to code on android, show us your ID, it’s not your ethical right to do as you wish with someone else’s software. There may or may not be a valid reason (ie. Too many suspicious apps that have no ownership). You need a license to drive on a public road owned by government , you need a license to code on Google’s Android . I can open up a restaurant that serves no alcohol and request people for ID when they walk in because it’s my right. No law that says you show me your ID but there’s also no law that says I have to let you in.

If the ICE app is breaking the law, and ICE itself is breaking the law, two wrongs don’t make 1 right. There are legal ways to protest.

Like I said, earlier if you aren’t breaking the law then if someone asks you to ID yourself , what’s your fear? Loss of privacy?

You can’t use privacy to hide the act of breaking a law.

Unless you’re a developer it doesn’t affect you anyway, you can still sideload apps. You just can’t use a public highway like the internet to break the law and expect nothing to happen. I know it’s not what any of you want to hear.

I grew up in Czechoslovakia and Australia, more Australia really. There might be a genuine reason why google is doing it or not. Most things require an identity these days. You cant drive without an identity , you can’t purchase alcohol without an one, of open a bank account. Where does your privacy feeling stand there I suppose you don’t have any of that? I’m actually amazed with so much fraud on the internet governments don’t require an ID to open a browser on your PC. Isn’t internet like a network of highways really ?

I don’t know about America or to be honest at all what ICE tracker does, but if I was to assume that it somehow tracks government agents where they go, there might be laws against that.

Doesn’t upset me, why? Because it’s not about controlling what app I install, but who wrote the app I might install. If my understanding is not correct of this change , I’m happy to be shown I’m wrong.

I guess I was brought up believing that if you do nothing wrong, theres no point hiding your identity.

I’m fine knowing the person who wrote the code of the app that I am about to install has had courage to identify themselves.

As a user I don’t have a problem with this , as long it’s used ethically. The question is if Google can act ethically.

Don’t ever save your files directly on a samba share with only office. Lost hours of work twice . It doesn’t keep recovery files.

Won’t be leaving the house if everyone starts using them haha

Not a solution as this will hurt people who aren’t billionaires as well.

They will just move to the next country.

Fully agree. The big problem is Germany industry is in the shits and can’t afford to finance the welfare state anymore. Military spending is all debt.

I’m actively working on moving on from Facebook. The amount of false information on the platform is just astounding and when you report the lies, you just get a response saying it doesn’t break any rules. Not even talking politics here, there was deceptive AI post about two top tennis players, that I reported.