Yes, China isn’t in the EU. Neither are USA-based tech gigants like meta and even those twats atleast try to look like they’re following regulations.

For your information, if a non-EU company offers goods or services to individuals in the EU they must comply with EU regulations, and that ofc includes GDPR.

I’d argue that 8.1 was an apology for 8 that never got accepted, 10 was an enshitified version of what 8 could have been if Microsoft shareholders didn’t decide they wanted a slice of that sweet sweet mobile market.

Anyway, anything past 7 has/had unacceptable privacy violations. And that alone makes them shitte, even regardless of everything else.

OH! Finally! A chance to use my knowledge acquired from scrolling wikipedia while procrastinating! That law hasn’t been overturned and is still, well, law. Of course every once in a while some clueless cop (because why should somebody enforcing the law, know the law sigh) will ask a topless sunbather to cover up. Here’s the article.