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Everyone's saying, "I don't see the problem, here," but it's pointed to (but not expounded upon) in the article: >Even though the servers are located in German

Everyone's saying, "I don't see the problem, here," but it's pointed to (but not expounded upon) in the article: >Even though the servers are located in Germany, US security and intelligence agencies could access the data, Strasser warned, demanding that the Federal Police expand its capacity "to preserve sovereignty over the core state function of internal security." For more on this concern, see here[0]. [0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19238119 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19238119

JeanMarcS 8y ago
Yeah it’s not like if there were not big Cloud european player like OVH that doesn’t comply to US secrecy laws
- Kephael 8y ago
  OVH are amateurs compared to Amazon and Microsoft.
prepend 8y ago
I don’t think confidentiality is that important for bodycam footage. In the sense that most will be released anyway. Integrity is critical as you would never want deletion or editing by unauthorized. But this is pretty easy to protect independent of Amazon. This seems like a non-issue unless, for some reason unknown to me, they have extra reasons for not wanting the NSA to see bodycam footage. Although I suspect that any German data center is the same, if not more vulnerable.
- renholder 8y ago
  >I don’t think confidentiality is that important for bodycam footage. In the sense that most will be released anyway. Why would most videos be released, anyway; especially, in Germany? This is all videos, inclusive of "routine stops" or "health and wellness checks". >This seems like a non-issue unless, for some reason unknown to me, they have extra reasons for not wanting the NSA to see bodycam footage. Why would they need extra reasons for not wanting that? Your supposition seems to infer that they should be o.k. with the NSA wanting to see bodycam footage any time that they want? That makes no sense... That would be akin to saying that the Americans should be fine with the Chinese seeing bodycam videos any time that they choose. If it's not fine for one, why would it be fine for the other? >Although I suspect that any German data center is the same, if not more vulnerable. Possibly but they wouldn't be victim to the Cloud Act, yeah?

JeanMarcS 8y ago

Yeah it’s not like if there were not big Cloud european player like OVH that doesn’t comply to US secrecy laws

Kephael 8y ago
OVH are amateurs compared to Amazon and Microsoft.

prepend 8y ago

I don’t think confidentiality is that important for bodycam footage. In the sense that most will be released anyway. Integrity is critical as you would never want deletion or editing by unauthorized. But this is pretty easy to protect independent of Amazon. This seems like a non-issue unless, for some reason unknown to me, they have extra reasons for not wanting the NSA to see bodycam footage. Although I suspect that any German data center is the same, if not more vulnerable.

renholder 8y ago
>I don’t think confidentiality is that important for bodycam footage. In the sense that most will be released anyway. Why would most videos be released, anyway; especially, in Germany? This is all videos, inclusive of "routine stops" or "health and wellness checks". >This seems like a non-issue unless, for some reason unknown to me, they have extra reasons for not wanting the NSA to see bodycam footage. Why would they need extra reasons for not wanting that? Your supposition seems to infer that they should be o.k. with the NSA wanting to see bodycam footage any time that they want? That makes no sense... That would be akin to saying that the Americans should be fine with the Chinese seeing bodycam videos any time that they choose. If it's not fine for one, why would it be fine for the other? >Although I suspect that any German data center is the same, if not more vulnerable. Possibly but they wouldn't be victim to the Cloud Act, yeah?