New Bill Would Require Warning Labels on Apps Made by China, Russia, Iran

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[–]UnrulyAnteater 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

At the State level, I agree. As much as they would probably think the same about us. However, from a user level, this really would only hurt individual developers. It'd also be a Scarlet letter move regarding those same developers; a slippery-slope argument I guess for more software lockdown leading a less open society.

[–]useless_aether[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

apps that are spying on the end user so the stolen data can be used by machine learning to implement a tyrannical social credit system is what yields a less open society.

[–]UnrulyAnteater 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

To that end, I totally agree. However, labelling an app as from a certain country does nothing towards this if the apps made in your own country do the exact same thing.

[–]useless_aether[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

agreed