🚨 Say that I were to give a talk to EU policy makers and OSS communities at a very big conference tomorrow...
...and that I want to spend half of my talk on how Google is locking down #Android thr...
@nprofile1q... Not sure if this is in scope of what you are asking, but one thing I am running into RIGHT NOW is that most car-brands, including European ones, are rolling out new models with Android Auto OS-based infotainment systems. While you can ostensibly use these systems without a Google account, some features do require one. But no matter how you slice it, a large segment of new cars being sold today are Google-cloud connected, with all the privacy and sovereignty implications that implies.