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Because governments have national security interests and need to be realistic about allowing their citizens to keep sensitive information in the hands of potent
by 3pt14159 11y ago
Because governments have national security interests and need to be realistic about allowing their citizens to keep sensitive information in the hands of potential adversaries. If the US or Russian government can blackmail a computer technician into "accidentally" leaving a back door open because the technician is secretly gay and they know this because of an analysis of his Facebook messages, then this is a threat that the state may want to minimize.
- patrickaljord 11y agoThat's true if you consider individual liberties to be less important State interests I guess, which is not my opinion.
- dreamfactory2 11y agoRemember you are often storing data which concerns other people e.g. messages, address books and other PID
- patrickaljord 11y agoIf people are storing data online that could be a risk to their lives or the life of their loved ones, then they should either not upload this data at all or strongly encrypt it before uploading such data. Whether it's stored in their own countries or abroad, criminal hackers don't care about borders.
- dreamfactory2 11y agoIt's not that simple at all - for example the recent finding that even using your own mailservers, half your mail would be going through google. As networking increases, data is becoming little more compartmentalised than the air we breathe - and we reasonably require pollution safeguards which everyone needs to adhere to