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I wonder if these types of legally-enforced privacy intrusions will bring about a new design goal for web-app builders: making retrieval of this information imp

I wonder if these types of legally-enforced privacy intrusions will bring about a new design goal for web-app builders: making retrieval of this information impossible for the service provider. It's one thing for Twitter to promise not to give your information to government entities until asked, but it's a whole other thing to engineer their application so it's impossible to comply with such a request.

josnyder 15y ago
It already has, to a small extent. Two services I can think of which already aim to provide this guarantee: Firefox Sync [1] and Tarsnap [2]. [1] http://docs.services.mozilla.com/sync/overview.html#cryptography http://docs.services.mozilla.com/sync/overview.html#cryptogr... [2] http://www.tarsnap.com/crypto.html http://www.tarsnap.com/crypto.html