This doesn't advocate for any substantial improvement of data protections. It's merely a convenience argument to legitimize banning Chinese cars for economic reasons. American car manufacturers will continue to harvest and sell all your data, just with less competition.
Of course, this isn't a surprise coming from the CFR, the lobbying organization for US imperialism.
Not my idea of a good date, but to each their own
"Safe" being defined in a user-hostile manier, i.e. with unmodified Google components and not rooted.
"Google-controlled" would be a better word.
"I dropped my fair share of hard Rs back then"
I don't have an opinion on the matter being discussed
You know it's an option to just... keep scrolling right? This isn't high school, you aren't obliged to leave a comment.
Obviously acquiring publicly available data is legal
Under the EU GDPR it is often not legal. Controllers need a legal basis, which only exists if there is an appropriate relationship between the controller and the data subject.
No, you got downvoted because you were insulting and incorrect.
The Google Play Store has long been the bastion for safe and worry-free app downloads
It's nice that the article starts with this blatent lie, so that you know everything that follows is just regurgitating Google's marketing.
Even ignoring that most of the apps in the play store are unreviewed proprietary spyware sending all their data back to Google, there have been many instances of obvious malware being distributed through the play store. It seems like they are trying to sweep that under the rug.
The uMatrix add-on for Firefox seems to do what you want.
You can't just compare the file sizes without looking at the quality. Each will have different quality loss depending on the exact encodings used.
Reserved for future use
The military lies and exploits poverty to coerce people. The federation is a post-scarcity society so people join because they want to. Also, the purpose of Starfleet is mostly exploration (with some exceptions).