Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software -- this abuses a GDPR hole that FOSS compensates for

GDPR Art.5 and other parts try to guarantee data subjects transparency on how their data is processed. The overlooked problem is when a data subject installs a closed-source app, they have no idea how their personal data is being processed inside that black box. And since the processing is performed by the data subject themself, they have no legal mechanism to become informed on how the data is processed.

FOSS solves this. FOSS is a crutch for a GDPR hole. Google’s advocacy is an assault on data protection. Yet they have the audacity to claim closed-source s/w gives a data protection benefit.

(update) Closed-source licenses → extra perverse

The last license agreement I read for a closed-source phone app prohibited studying the app or reverse-engineering it. So not only are data subjects technologically blocked from transparency on how their data is processed, they are also contractually blocked from even trying.