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Corporations' motivations rarely coincide with deep, consistent systems strategy, and largely operate reactively and in a manner where individuals get favorable
by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Corporations' motivations rarely coincide with deep, consistent systems strategy, and largely operate reactively and in a manner where individuals get favorable performance reviews for adding profitable features or saving costs.
- roenxi 2y agoThey are appropriately motivated in this case, carriers would surely rather have no idea whatsoever about the data they are carrying. The default incentive is they'd really rather avoid being part of any compliance regimes or law enforcement actions because that sort of thing is expensive, fiddly and carries a high risk of public outcry. If they had the option the telecommunication companies would love to encrypt traffic and obscure it so much that they have no plausible way of figuring out what is going on. Then they can take customer money and throw their hands up in honest confusion when anyone wants them to moderate their customer's behaviour. They don't because that would be super-illegal. The police and intelligence services demand that they snoop, log and avoid data-minimisation techniques. It is entirely a question of regulatory demand and time that these sort of breaches happen; if the US government demands the data then sooner or later the Chinese government will get a copy too. I assume that is a trade off the US government is happy to make.