I think what is also interesting about this article is that EU, long the privacy stalwart, were the original ISPs to block private relay. Seems counter intuitive to me.
Reading the article and it's predecessor it seems they are mainly doing it on cheap contracts in the UK??
Which would not be in the EU.
I'm not sure if it's even legal to do so in the EU, tbh. it might be against the net neutrality rules in the EU (though they have loop holes, so not sure).
In the article:
"Now, in addition to some carriers in Europe, it appears that T-Mobile/Sprint in the United States is also blocking iCloud Private Relay access when connected to cellular data."
Though as far as I understood the European carriers voiced complains but did not act, thought UK carriers did (which isn't EU anymore).
Tbh. the article is just not very well written, I also first thought the article implied that T-Mobile US is an EU carrier operating in the US (it isn't, it's an US carrier owned to around 43% by an EU carrier, with which it shares a bunch of thinks, like trademarks).
EU regulations aren't necessarily designed for privacy, they're designed to troll US tech companies. Covering the screen in cookie dialog boxes didn't accomplish much.
One of the upcoming ones seems to just ban Kickstarter.
especially the mentioned banners affects US and EU companies alike (or at least did until the US decided to claim rights on EU citizens data through the Cloud act...).
Wrt. to the cookie banner it you mean the one coming from GDPR then the problem is missing enforcement. It must be as easy to opt in as to opt out this means:
- two clicks to opt out one for opt in => illegal
- dark patterns which makes it easier to accidentally opt in => illegal
- spamming people which don't agree to being spied on with "dialog boxes" => illegal (GDPR allows some forms purely functional data storage without consent, for example a non-3rd party cookie to remember that the user is opted out _which is not used for tracking_ is legal without asking for consent, hence there is a technical easy and legal way to not spam people with dialog boxes, hence making it harder for people to opt out by repeating forcing them to redo the action is illegal). Naturally doesn't apply if you clear cookies.
