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Any company's legal department is like HR, it's role is to protect the company, not the employees and certainly not the customers.

• goodpoint 5y ago
  Even more so for non-paying users, as in gmail or facebook. Especially when the companies are already happily selling account metadata.
• ceejayoz 5y ago
  Getting a reputation for handing customer data over to the government without a fight seems like the sort of thing that would damage a hosting company.
  • Phrenzy 5y ago
    Having a poor data security reputation? It didn't effect Experian. https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/another-data-leak-for-experian-credit-scores-of-americans-were-available-to-anyone-due-to-api-security-issue/ https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/another-data-leak... It didn't effect Yahoo. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/might-mother-password-leaks-billions-001204813.html https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/might-mother-password-le... It didn't effect Sony. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomgara/sony-hack https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomgara/sony-hack It didn't effect AT&T. https://www.wired.com/2011/09/911-surveillance/ https://www.wired.com/2011/09/911-surveillance/
    • gruez 5y ago
      >It didn't effect Experian. You, as a consumer don't really get to choose experian or not. >It didn't effect Yahoo. Who says it didn't? >It didn't effect Sony. So a bunch of internal business documents got leaked. As a consumer I couldn't care less. >It didn't effect AT&T. If every provider was mandated to do this, then I wouldn't call it "poor data security reputation".