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Very much a slippery slope. Their cloud doesn't mean its their content. If said content is public, I mostly agree, but not if its private. When I hire a stora
by fleddr 5y ago
Very much a slippery slope.
Their cloud doesn't mean its their content. If said content is public, I mostly agree, but not if its private.
When I hire a storage box and put stuff in it, I don't own the storage box. Yet still it cannot be searched by anyone, not the company nor the authorities, unless there is a credible criminal suspicion.
- dharmaturtle 5y agoThe storage owner can have a terms of service - i.e. you can't store flammable material/liquids. They also probably reserve the right to enter your unit to perform repairs.
- fleddr 5y agoRight, and to keep this analogy consistent, do storage owners routinely open all storage units, then open up all your boxes and search through them to check for flammables?
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoThey don't give out free storage. If you aren't paying with money you're paying with something else and you have no expectation of privacy when you agree to terms that say as such.
- dharmaturtle 5y agoNo, but that's primarily due to a lack of interest/manpower. They (probably) reserve the right to ensure that you aren't doing things that are against their TOS. There's (probably) no right to privacy.
- jrockway 5y agoI guess the question is, if someone emails you an archive of jpg files to share on your public website, will you? Without looking at them? I think that would be crazy. When they end up being CSAM or whatever, you're the one that will go to prison for possessing them, not the person that sent them to you.
- bvxhl 5y agoSo, after Google/YouTube have been aided in growth by the safe harbor clause, they now think that site owner responsibility is not such a bad thing after all? Sounds more to me that they are pulling up the ladder to impede competitors.
- _notathrowaway 5y agoI belive this is a really good take on the matter, and somehow you are the first person I see bringing it up.
- not2b 5y agoThe EFF has raised this issue repeatedly (that stringent requirements on content filtering will be an advantage to the large players who can afford to do it).
- judge2020 5y agoIt's very likely you only start getting 'requests' from 3-letter agencies asking you to scan content once you reach some large mass of hosted content, especially since the technology for even doing so is locked up, with NCMEC and Microsoft being the arbitrators for who gets to use it: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/PhotoDNA/CloudService https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/PhotoDNA/CloudService
- fleddr 5y agoThat's why I made the distinction between public hosting and a private album. For public files, I fully agree with you. For private ones, not at all.