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I love how business-friendliness is your top concern here. How about this: only businesses (like Facebook, Google et al.) should be able to say 'trust in me' -

by pekk 13y ago

I love how business-friendliness is your top concern here. How about this: only businesses (like Facebook, Google et al.) should be able to say 'trust in me' - to their customers. Privacy regulation is only for the government, this will ensure that the surveillance state is built by corporations, as God intended. It's obviously a huge risk and embarrassment if the US government looks at data from Europeans. But if American companies sell each other that data, that should be of no concern to Europeans, because private companies are all inherently trustworthy without external oversight.

drawkbox 13y ago
Well I mentioned business aspects since that was the topic/article focus, lack of trust in US business/cloud data due to unsure protections and secrets of business. Also I mention that frequently because the people that say 'I have nothing to hide' and don't mind, might think differently if they are business focused and do worry about people stealing ideas, plans, or reacting based on those business secrets. It is bad all around when individual privacy is at risk unknowingly, but it also affects business privacy and that impacts everyone and harms perception of US cloud services for one which the article mentions. If you make something public on a website like Facebook you should expect that will be used. But noone expected private emails, phone calls, logs of files in the cloud to be so easily accessible. It creates huge problems in business trustworthiness and protections. That aside from the more important lack of individual privacy that is expected in the same and the root of the problem.
wolfgke 13y ago
> How about this: only businesses (like Facebook, Google et al.) should be able to say 'trust in me' - to their customers. As a user of Facebook, you aren't a customer, but the product that is sold to the advertising customers.

by pekk 13y ago

drawkbox 13y ago

Well I mentioned business aspects since that was the topic/article focus, lack of trust in US business/cloud data due to unsure protections and secrets of business. Also I mention that frequently because the people that say 'I have nothing to hide' and don't mind, might think differently if they are business focused and do worry about people stealing ideas, plans, or reacting based on those business secrets. It is bad all around when individual privacy is at risk unknowingly, but it also affects business privacy and that impacts everyone and harms perception of US cloud services for one which the article mentions. If you make something public on a website like Facebook you should expect that will be used. But noone expected private emails, phone calls, logs of files in the cloud to be so easily accessible. It creates huge problems in business trustworthiness and protections. That aside from the more important lack of individual privacy that is expected in the same and the root of the problem.

wolfgke 13y ago

> How about this: only businesses (like Facebook, Google et al.) should be able to say 'trust in me' - to their customers. As a user of Facebook, you aren't a customer, but the product that is sold to the advertising customers.