EU has created a system that bypasses payment processing services like visa or mastercard
It is active
u/letterboxfrog — 3 days ago
r/BuyFromEU
Von der Leyen: €300 billion in European savings flown overseas every year, primarily to the US, will be invested in Europe from now on. All 27 EU states agreed to establish the S&I Union, a step toward the full Capital Market Union
streamable.comu/Alive_Expression2937 — 11 days ago
In case you need another reason to not buy a Tesla: A model 3 sends data to 34 trackers and advertiser
>More than half of the cars (13) contacted Google, 12 called to Amazon, 8 – to Spotify. Three vehicles communicated with Meta Platforms. Many domains were not required for core services, like doubleclick.net or googlesyndication.com, used for advertising purposes, or other trackers.
Tesla Model 3, Cybertruck, Cadillac Lyriq, Lucid Air and Chevrolet Blazer were highlighted as vehicles that sent data to the largest number of outside advertising and analytics companies. Only the Mercedes EQS and Buick Envista stuck to the manufacturer's domains.
https://cybernews.com/security/connected-cars-big-tech-data-privacy-concerns/
This in an investigation done by an American university of cars sold on the American market. There are only a few European models on the list but that does not necessarily mean that European cars are not doing exactly the same thing.
Research paper: https://automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu/paper.pdf
u/RotaryDane — 9 days ago