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Submission + - BSA lashes out at mandatory open-source licensing (bsa.org)

Elektroschock writes: The American Business Software Alliance (BSA) does not consider mandatory open-source licensing to be an appropriate indicator of sovereignty. This is among the "pointed messages" they sent to the French government consultation (closed) today. "What protects Europe is the ability to govern, audit, and mitigate risk, not where a company files its corporate papers," said Thomas Boué of BSA.

Comment Re:Grand Theft Servers (Score 1) 50

That was pretty much what happened to "Kim Dotcom's" servers in New Zealand in 2012, except that he was offering an encrypted cloud and had no way of taking backups. Last I heard, the data was gone and a lot of companies / private users were really really screwed. If the servers were ever returned and the data recovered, it will have been years later.
Pirated movies, police raids and politics: A timeline of the Kim Dotcom saga seems fairly accurate, Wikipedia also covers this.

Comment Re:I guess turnabout is fair game (Score 1) 42

Wyden said in a statement that it was time to "start treating the adtech industry as a national security threat."

More of an international security threat but . . . whatever. I think the Ukrainian army was using this type of data for targetting early on in the war, the invaders were docking into Ukrainian cell towers and their government obviously had access to that data.

Comment Re:Congress fails again and blames others (Score 1) 42

Off Topic, and there was an operating framework channelling Iranian nuclear development - including monitoring of the sites to make sure they were not developing nukes on the sly - in place when the Orange One was first elected. It involved Iran and Obama, that was enough for the OO to withdraw from the agreement. The reason this conflict is still going on is that the OO does not want a peace agreement which is basically what was in place before he sabotaged it.

Comment Solutionism (Score 1) 86

The journalist was able to retrofind her using undisclosed facial recognition software after she had been found.

It would not surprise me if that was simply a use of semantic tagging of the Google image search engine of fotos found after her whereabouts were revealed.

Also, Germans strongly politically oppose surveillance software as does their legal system. If there is a national able to generate a movement to break free from BigTech, Germany is a good candidate.

Anyway, if you want to put such software to good use, we still don't know where her terrorist colleagues are, Nr Staub and Mr Garweg
https://www.lka.polizei-nds.de...
If you find these using such software, that would make a convincing sales argument.

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