Europe's mobile phone companies united over one man's heart to ban Private Relay feature And Apple was prevented from adding it to its operating system because they see that Apple's privacy feature violates digital sovereignty, and so they demanded the European Union to classify Apple as a gatekeeper, which means huge entities that have a strong influence in the European market.
Private Relay feature
The Private Relay feature or “hide the address using iCloud” was launched by Apple to protect your privacy while browsing the web through the Safari browser, and the feature is very similar to VPN services because it encrypts your browser traffic and hides your location and your device’s IP address, and so on Your network provider and websites cannot get any of your private information and thus become anonymous to carriers who want to block Apple's feature because according to them it violates EU digital sovereignty.
Why are mobile companies fighting Apple's advantage?
Mobile phone companies in the European Union say Apple's "iCloud hide address" feature prevents them from managing their networks because Apple's feature works by sending web traffic first to an Apple server where it is stripped of a piece of information called an IP address. Apple sends the traffic to a second server operated by a third-party operator that assigns a temporary IP address to the user and sends the traffic to the website they wish to visit. This process hides the identity of the user and the website even from Apple itself.
Although the feature is a virtual private network, European carriers including Vodafone, Telefonica, Orange and T-Mobile say that the feature will weaken the ability of others to innovate and compete in the final digital markets and may negatively affect the ability of phone companies to manage networks Efficient communication.
That is why European mobile operators sent a joint letter to the European Commission to express their concerns about the feature. The letter signed by the mobile operators we just mentioned said, “Apple’s paging service aims to enhance the privacy of users when online and browsing by encrypting and redirecting traffic and thus Cut off other networks and servers from accessing vital network data and metadata, including the operators responsible for the connection process.
As the European phone company said, "Apple's Private Relay feature will lead to dire consequences in terms of undermining European digital sovereignty." The operators also asked the European Commission to consider Apple a “digital gatekeeper” and this designation under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act means that the American company is prevented from running the feature in its system there. However, some companies did not wait for the European Union to react as T-Mobile banned its users In America, the feature is enabled on iPhones.
finallyiCloud Private Relay is available in beta for all iOS 15 users, and Apple hasn't announced when it will be available in its final form. It is worth noting that Apple did not offer an advantage in some countries because the laws of these countries prevent this type of advantage and these countries are the most famous of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Russia, China and the Philippines. However, if Apple is considered the gatekeeper, according to the European Digital Markets Law (the law has not been approved to this day This is by all governments) this feature may be prevented on users' devices in Europe in the coming period.
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In Europe, the digital sovereignty of companies and not the government, and most of these companies sell user data to the Zionist state and large companies such as Amazon and Facebook, which in turn sell it to smaller companies,
So companies will not stop spying and stealing information because it is their second main source of income, which is like Ali Baba's cave 😕
The Federation wants to spy on users
I'm with Apple, long live Apple
I live in Europe in Italy specifically and this feature is paid! For a nominal amount of €0,99 per month
Something weird
They are Hungarian commercial companies that do not manufacture technology, so they go to hell, long live Apple, and they will not be able to do so, and they do not even hear of them
The European Union lives on fines
wretched for them
Savage capitalists, including Apple to a lesser extent, are battling to suck the blood of the poor customer.
Sad news if Europe looks at freedoms in this way, so don't worry about those who are inferior to that in general.
I support Apple in this matter
To the farthest and the farthest extent
The reason is the crooked methods of global, regional and local companies, hackers and governments
And their desperation to get users' information
I am not a commodity to be bought and sold
From the feudal lords of the global digital industry
Privacy is a principle, basis and guarantee for me and the society in which I live
Your safety and you live
Your brother Khaled from Kuwait
What does undermining European digital sovereignty mean?!
Its name is similar to the accusation against arbitrarily detained detainees in Syria - God was with them - and it is: “undermining the prestige of the state.”
Or: They are the will of the nation
weakening national sentiment
😆
We conclude that user privacy is targeted for everyone, not only for Arabs 🙃
Unfortunately!
We used to think that the countries of the European Union preserve and preserve human rights and protect privacy, but this is only for the public and the media
The most important thing is profit and support for big companies at all costs
And this is what the Corona crisis revealed, many companies and small shops, so they were not supported by countries while
When it came to the German company Lufthansa, the government supported it with everything to rise and not go bankrupt
Protecting privacy is a big thing in Germany, but when companies such as Vodafone, Telefonica (O2) and Telecom intervene, then privacy is zero and companies understand more than the government 😂
The government is watching you, too
Definitely for ads and benefit
Strange for telecommunications companies, this request is usually from governments or applications to track ads
It is clear: this feature strips these companies of following users’ movements and knowing their data, which deprives companies of a source of income from selling data to other companies such as advertising companies and the like