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I agree with that. Something like that could happen. Question is, how do we stop it? This reminds me of when Facebook owned Parse dot com and a lot of developer

• luckylion 8y ago
  My personal stance it to just make it harder. Encrypt the data, use your own server so there's less metadata. Of course, even then, if the data center company really wanted to and really was happy to break the law and really went deep into the attack, they could probably find a way to get to the data. But it's much harder, much more illegal and even they will certainly think longer before doing that vs "just copy the data and don't tell anyone" if it's in plain text on their machine. It's more work to do it this way and forsake the convenience provided by Amazon & Co, but I prefer it. Plus I learn lots of things while doing it which I would've outsourced otherwise. There's also the problem that Amazon might stay 100% truthful and trustworthy and never access my data. But their employees might not. The NSA's surveillance data was misused by employees to stalk romantic interests, so there's no reason to believe that an Amazon employee couldn't wrongfully do the same. They might be fired for it, but the damage is done, privacy has been compromised.