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Their recent fight with FBI for one. Granted, they're not saints, but at the very list they stirred up some controversy.
by d33 10y ago
Their recent fight with FBI for one. Granted, they're not saints, but at the very list they stirred up some controversy.
- bskap 10y agoBut they're not a "sharing economy" company. They show up on the normal Who Has Your Back list.
- theseatoms 10y agoThe modern 'cloud' sounds like data storage sharing and computing sharing to me.
- bskap 10y ago"sharing economy" usually refers to services that don't directly sell things, but instead get users who want things in contact with other users who have things- Uber getting people who want to use a car in contact with people who have a car, for example. Cloud is just traditional renting with fancy terminology.
- wyldfire 10y agoThey're not on this list because they're not in these [sharing economy] marketplaces. They have been and likely will continue to be a part of the primary "Who has your back?" review ([1] e.g). [1] https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-requests-2015 https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-reques...
- d33 10y agoAh, right, missed this one. Sorry.