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> The government, meanwhile, accused Google of fashioning a system that kept consumer data stored on various servers across the globe—just so it could defy cour
by 1024core 9y ago
> The government, meanwhile, accused Google of fashioning a system that kept consumer data stored on various servers across the globe—just so it could defy court orders.
GGG? (Good Guy Google) ? For all the hate that Google gets on HN, it should also get some kudos for trying to protect the users' data.
- usjehshksish 9y agoSeems like this filing from the government is reason enough to hope that Google does implement such systems.
- harsharama 9y agoEngineering-wise, data dup and replication is worldwide for guaranteed access times, availability and DR. This particular legal advantage is a bonus of good design :)
- bonesss 9y agoPoint of order: the accusation is not that Google duplicated and replicated data, some of which is outside the country. Google is being accused of intentionally obfuscating their control of the data explicitly to avoid court-orders (and not technical reasons and common engineering approaches). ... what you're talking about should result in a logical amalgamation: data here AND data there. Google is being accused of going out of their way to create an artificial barriers to the legal system by only having data "NOT here".
- bonesss 9y agoTwo things can be true simultaneously... Google, good or evil, has a massive long-running interest in not allowing nations to subvert each others laws. Taken cynically: protecting user data may be entirely incidental to securing megabillions in hosting and services over the next few decades in privacy aware countries and with authoritarian regimes. Still: doing the right thing for the wrong reason ain't the worst ;)