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landwomble t1_jc274xy wrote

UK Gov has M365. They have this already via InTune. Who on earth, outside of government, would think allowing users to install ANYTHING they like on a work device was a good idea, let alone users that are privy to very sensitive information. It's madness.

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mecha_flake t1_jc26agy wrote

If that's true, it's a stupid way to attempt that. There is nothing stopping people from just scraping Twitter's front end. That means Twitter pays a ton more money because they have to serve much more data.

APIs are a much more efficient way to serve specific data sets.

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Additional_Ad_2778 t1_jc25zvw wrote

Because this is how many people in government think.

“I think that’s a personal choice,” Michelle Donelan, the minister at the helm of the U.K.’s new Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, told POLITICO in an interview. “As a Conservative, I strongly believe in personal choice.”

It's shocking to be reminded how thick some of our representatives really are.

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mega153 t1_jc249nw wrote

I think this might be just a reclassification situation. Instead of tiktok being blocked implicitly by not being on the whitelist, it's being explicitly blocked on a blacklist. Afaik, we haven't actually got a report of these devices removing tiktok as opposed to just banning the app. Functionally, nothing changed while headlines are made for clicks.

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DeathGPT t1_jc23yhd wrote

Okay poop-machine, pretty sure Elon is just another cog in the machine of capitalism that has led the brutality of corrupt success in America.

Don’t hate the player being Elon, hate the game being corporate America and the gov. for allowing people Like Elon to succeed.

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cartsucks t1_jc209x2 wrote

Do government devices have absolutely zero MDM solutions or other safeguards that these laws have to be passed?

Corporate owned/government owned devices should have specific policies that only allow certain items on said devices. It’s amazing that they require these laws as this SHOULD be a common requirement from the get go

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0pimo t1_jc1xi9l wrote

>Giving preferential treatment to financial companies based on means alone isn’t going to benefit anyone except the people at the top

What planet are you on? This is how the world works. People with money spend it to gain benefits and value.

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