Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.
  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    This is a weird line in the sand. Instead of focusing on where something is build, shouldnywe focus on technical details and software licenses?

    For example, Signal is based in the US, but the app is structured in such a way that they have minimal information: just the creation time and last login, associated with a phone number. That has even been tried in court, and that’s literally all they could provide. Telegram is worse technically speaking, but it’s headquartered outside the US.

    Don’t evaluate software based on where it’s developed, evaluate it based on what is does and can do in the future.

  • Tad Lispy@lemm.eeEnglish
    171·
    4 days ago

    Is this coming from Wired magazine, aka the press organ of silicon valley? Big wows.

  • lseufer@lemm.eeEnglish
    1312·
    4 days ago

    Qwant is owned by Huawei. Leaving Trumplandia for Xi…

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      3 days ago

      Qwant is owned by Huawei.

      No it isn’t.

      Why are you lying like this? What’s the goal?

      Qwant is based in Paris and its owners are:

      • Jean-Manuel Rozan

      • Éric Léandri

      • Patrick Constant

      • Caisse des dépôts et consignations (basically a public investment institution owned by the French government)

      • Groupe Axel Springer (an online media company based in Germany)

      So again: why did you lie? What’s the goal here?

        • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          This source backs me up, not you.

          Under the terms of the contract, the Chinese group has the possibility of converting its obligations within two years in order to become a minority shareholder in the French group - in the order of 5 to 7.5% of the capital, according to the documents obtained by Politico. But such a scenario, which would allow Huawei to influence Qwant’s strategy, can only be achieved if the Chinese group obtains prior among other conditions. According to Politico, this mechanism reassured the Deposit Fund. Qwant, on the other hand, assures that Huawei is not trying to get into its capital.

          So, a 2021 source says Huawei, in accordance with agreements, could possibly take a 5 to 7.5% stake as long as they did it within two years. It then states that this isn’t something Huawei actually intends to go ahead with.

          It’s been well over two years, Huawei indeed didn’t take a stake in Qwant, and Qwant is still entirely French-German.

          With that above information, you went online and lied, saying Huawei owns Qwant. They do not. You lied. And now you’re doubling down on it.

          Bit suspicious, by the way, that you’re a new account with only 3 comments, all of which spreading misinformation.

    • uniquethrowagay@feddit.orgEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      Can you back that claim up at all? Qwant is not owned by Huawei. They don’t even hold shares as far as I can tell.

      • lseufer@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        3 days ago

        8 million convertible bounds in a company that hasn’t turned a profit. Sure no risk at all.

    • chakan2@lemmy.worldEnglish
      914·
      4 days ago

      Xi isn’t going to take me away to special education camps. They can have my data.