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How EU digital identity rules and Google's restrictive policies threaten the future of privacy-focused Android operating systems like GrapheneOS.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20250810234024/https://www.forbes.com/sites/federicoguerrini/2025/08/10/whos-afraid-of-privacy-focused-smartphones/

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's a cooperation between:

  • religious fundamentalist christian groups, many of which done some rebranding to appeal at least somewhat secular (Collective Shout, NCOSE - formerly Morality In Media, or even the European CitizenGo), while others are still primarily religious fundamentalists (Exodus Cry, Seven Mountain Dominion),
  • big tech companies like Google, who want to tie their users' data to real identities, want to lock down their ecosystems even more, and don't really care about potential bans under a far-right christian theocracy as long as they benefit from it economically and finacially.
[–] FreedomAdvocate -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It’s literally neither of those lol.

Governments are doing this because they want control and they want to know all the stuff that Google and Apple etc know. It’s got nothing to do with religion or big tech lol.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It just happens that those people pushing for it happen to be extremely religious. Nothing to see here, if we ever got our rights back and not everything will go to crap, we don't have to set up provisions so that a small religious extremist minority cannot get hold on our governments. In fact, those christian extremists weren't "real christians", they just pretended to be one, because my interpretation of the bible only include the good parts and I ignore the bad parts.

[–] FreedomAdvocate -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Im not sure what world you’re living in, but in the one where these digital id laws are being pushed in all the big western countries, the anti-Christian governments are all in power.

The USA are the only one where the extremely religious Christian’s have any real power and they’re the only country pushing back.

What exactly are you basing your argument on?