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Let's hope it passes through. As much as companies would like to keep this as their trade secret, I as an individual have right to know what is the company doing with my data, and how exactly it process it and based on what logic interacts with me. Especially since those companies trends to dictate one significant part of the life experience of a person living on this planet.

If that would mean those company would just decide not to operate anymore on my country, I would still consider that as a net win.

With great power comes the great responsibility, and those companies showed that we can't count on then bring honest and open to us unless we force them to.

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Its millions of lines of code that is bucketing various sessions and users into thousands of experiments where +10k lines are changing every day. I don’t think you’ll get that much value out of it.

Its like saying you have a right to toyotas cad files because you drive their car and trust it with your life. You wont be able to use it and it’s the wrong approach.

Your government isn't doing this out of strong ideological principles in order to protect the freedom and privacy of it's people. Your government is salty because big tech gets to screw you over without giving the govt it's cut. Don't be fooled, big tech is not your friend, but neither is the government.

Let's be clear here - the government is not as yet doing anything. This is a report from the technocrats who run our competition regulator. Which recommendations actually make it into government policy once they've gone through the political process is a completely different question.

If it doesn't involve taxes, welfare handouts and financial regulations the government sometimes do pretty well. One article is not much to go on, but it doesn't look like they are talking about taxing tech companies, but raising the transparency standards they must abide by.

If the government isn't setting the standards for privacy, it is obvious that there will be no standard other than 'profitable for Google, good for America'. I would like to see higher standards than that in Australia.

Going a little more to the root of this thread - if Google can raise enough political pressure to force the government to leave them alone that in itself would be evidence they have too much political power.

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