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This is nothing to do with tech companies. Government have lot more money and resources to fund such efforts. In countries such as India, people view government

This is nothing to do with tech companies. Government have lot more money and resources to fund such efforts. In countries such as India, people view government as a protector and provider as opposed to countries like US where people view government as something they permitted to exist with terms of and conditions of minimal interference. Well, at least in theory. Such countries are risk at authoritarian Internet. Even if tech isn’t invested, these countries will invest and make it happen.

rchaud 8y ago
> This is nothing to do with tech companies. The same companies whose product is customer data and usage patterns? That they use to develop behavioural models, affinities and recommendation engines? It's one thing when you are a device maker and are required to provide in-country servers and backdoor access as a condition of doing business. Blackberry (then RIM) caught heat for that in 2011 when they provided that to India and the UAE. It's a different thing entirely when gargantuan companies like Amazon or Google that control a significant part of the Internet's infrastructure begin to shift away from public-facing business models and towards high-margin contract work for governments. You said it yourself: > Government have lot more money and resources to fund such efforts and they're adept at wasting it as well. You don't think Amazon, Google etc look at IT contracts in the public sector and salivate at the opportunity?