When the Canadian Kimberly Prost learned Donald Trump’s administration had imposed sanctions on her, it came as a shock.
For years, she has sat as a judge at the international criminal court, weighing accusations of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity; now she is on the same list as terrorists and those involved in organised crime. “It really was a moment of a bit of disbelief,” she said.
It’s not just cards. Many banks today require using a mobile app for online banking, and those apps require an Apple- or Google-certified device and an Apple or Google account. While it is possible to open those accounts under a false name (the apps are free so you don’t need to enter payment info), this is still an absurd amount of leverage the US has on everyday people’s activities in other countries.
All my banks have apps but I haven’t found any that don’t support just a browser
Yeah, I got credit cards and bank apps available. But I use the browser for all of them.
Yes, that too. However, you have alternatives to Android to some degree that would allow a banking app to work. Nevertheless, we need a non-US operating system for mobile devices and so on.
Not if an app uses Play Integrity. The entire purpose of Play Integrity is to not work on anything that is not a Google-certified OS.
Yes, that’s why I said to some degree. I didn’t test it, but at least some banking apps work from what I hear. I plan to test it soon.