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Summary: This video 'prelude' or 'interlude' speaks about the importance of privacy and why it's a pretty big deal that EPO management funnels tons of personal data to a company with a longtime record of criminality (with impunity, just like Benoît Battistelli's)
THE ABOVE video speaks about the latest EPO puff piece (warning: epo.org link), connecting it to yesterday's 3 puff pieces.
EPO management could really use a distraction right now (to distract the media and distract staff). "The European Inventor Award will take place on 17 June 2021," it says, "and for the first time in the history of the event, the ceremony will be entirely digital."
Is this news? Not really. To make matters worse, they clearly published this
prematurely. It's one paragraph with no actual details. It's like those recent press releases about
António Campinos making a call with someone, falsely calling it a "meeting" (they never even met). The EPO states: "Additional details, including information on the event, registration process and finalists, will be published in the weeks ahead."
So why not advertise this when those details are available? Is the EPO desperate to distract from something?
In the coming hour we'll finalise and publish the first part of the series that will be 20 parts long, not including videos (it'll be about 30 parts in total once we include or count the videos/interjections).
As the video above notes, Microsoft realised that the world had moved past Windows (with
Android and all the market share of Windows is nowadays something like a quarter, not even counting small devices around the home or office), so they increasingly imitate the business model of Google and/or Amazon, hoping to spy for bailout/federal money and maybe even for hosting fees (subscription). Azure has thus far been a failure (losses and layoffs), but with back room deals they hope to turn that around. Can back rooms deals,
illegal deals, e.g. with the EPO, yield that turnaround?
The EPO is humiliating Europe by outsourcing, even in blatant violation of the law, so much data to another continent and to the most notorious 'tech' company in that continent.
Part I of the series will be ready shortly.
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