… Away from search, the EU’s proposals for Android could see Google have to further open up the operating system to allow AI firms and agents to use “wake words” on phones and tablets, as well as potentially allowing AI services from other companies to interact with installed applications and data. “… …
… In short, Europe could become the first major policy laboratory where age verification stops being a formality and becomes a real infrastructure, with all the promise and—not to be overlooked—all the risks that this entails. …
… Mozilla researcher Shoshana Wodinsky found the app pings third-party trackers from the moment it opens, before a user enters anything; the instant she logged a symptom, the details went to analytics firm RudderStack alongside a persistent user ID, with no in-app way to shut the sharing off. …
… And the moment is especially relevant because I can give you maybe the European context to this. You could pretty accurately say that politics in the US really lurched to the right in the past 10 years or so, and the same thing’s happening in Europe as well. …
… It's why Project Artemis happened. …