Europe is rolling out measures to keep data local and reduce reliance on foreign tech.
  • Vogi@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    8 minutes ago

    Hmmm… 🤔

    (I know alternatives, especially “truly” European are pretty much not existent, those 8 europeans still could’ve chosen one that’s respects their data a bit more than Google does if they don’t trust them I feel like)

  • IratePirate@feddit.orgEnglish
    23·
    3 hours ago

    To be fair, I don’t trust European companies with it either. As the saying goes: “Where there’s a trough, there will be pigs.” Want to keep your data safe? Keep it.

    • Obi@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      6·
      2 hours ago

      Yes, bit wary of these current trends that try to paint Europe as this holier than thou place where everyone only thinks about the polar bears and UBI, when the truth is we have plenty of capitalist sharks in our ranks that would be happy burning it all down for the next quarterly results.

      • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 hour ago

        To be fair, we have the GDPR in Europe, which puts people at ease. However, this could be weakened or rid of entirely in order for the EU to become more “competitive” some day. Even the climate change goals of the EU has already been weakened so that we could catch up to the AI race. As sad as it is, it’s just the realpolitik influencing decisions.

        • JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.netEnglish
          1·
          2 minutes ago

          And every year new open mass surveillance worse than the UK and US attempts to be passed and barely fails.

          GDPR also doesn’t mean shit if it is barely enforced against large companies or the fines aren’t revenue-proportional… Then it is just a cost of doing business.

  • RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    41·
    3 hours ago

    Well… Given that the average person neither knows what data they are effectively giving US and Chinese companies, nor does anything against it, this poll is asking the wrong questions. Massive amounts of data collected for every single individual via ad-based surveillance (US) and IOT devices phoning home (China) is the reality we live in today. But the average person does not know about it and therefore can’t even grasp what is done to them. They don’t trust them, but they hand over the data anyway. This is basically a poll amongst cows in the slaughterhouse.

  • shirasho@feddit.onlineEnglish
    37·
    6 hours ago

    I live in the US and I dont trust US companies with my data either. They either sell it or are handled by easily exploitable systems developed offshore in India.

    So, in that sense I do not trust the US, China, India, or Russia with my data and avoid software developed in any of these places when feasibly possible.

  • Chippys_mittens@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46·
    7 hours ago

    As someone born and living in the US, I also don’t trust the US or China… or pretty much anyone with my data.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    5 hours ago

    Self-plagiarizing:

    Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, and Poland, where Poland has by far the highest rate of trust in US and Chinese tech companies. Seems therefore like the five other countries might not be a representative sample of Europeans, even though total Polish trust of US tech companies still only amounts to 38% compared to ~15% in runner-up Italy.

    Coincidentally™, Polish trust nearly triples over more “Western” countries, which shows that this clearly isn’t a representative sample of Europeans – definitely not enough to claim “8 in 10 Europeans”. (Politico actually changed the headline from earlier which didn’t claim this.)