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The funny thing about giant tech companies and your personal data is they do their best to convince you they are a great place to store your intimate details an
by etaioinshrdlu 6y ago
The funny thing about giant tech companies and your personal data is they do their best to convince you they are a great place to store your intimate details and secrets. They can be trusted.
But on the flip side, these companies are incredibly paranoid and secretive with their own data. They all run their own mail internally and do not (in general) store sensitive data on each other's clouds.
I think this is super important for companies like, for example, Facebook and Uber, to maintain utter secrecy of their internal data, because they know they have a lot to hide.
Anyways, the vibe is "Trust us, but we won't trust you". Yuck.
- joshuamorton 6y agoI'm not sure what your point is. Most big companies use gsuite or Ms office suite, or don't because they consider Google or Ms a competitor and don't want to pay them money. There's very few big companies that are concerned about MS or Google stealing their data. That's a concern held mostly by random hackernews commenters.
- Drdrdrq 6y agoGood point, though it's probably more "Trust us, but we don't trust others like us". Still very telling.
- fibers 6y agoOk but playing devil's advocate, do you think this is a result of clouds inevitably leading to vendor lock in?