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I agree. As long as big companies become so good at tracking and making money through surveillance themselves, it's just too irresistible for spy agencies not t
by salient 13y ago
I agree. As long as big companies become so good at tracking and making money through surveillance themselves, it's just too irresistible for spy agencies not to try and get that data one way or another.
That's why companies need to at least use forward secrecy, keep data at rest encrypted, and also delete more ephemeral data a lot more quickly.
Google used to delete the data they have on their users every 6 months. I don't think they plan on ever deleting anything they have anymore now. That's the wrong way to go about it. Tracking data should not exist for more than a few months at most, and private communications should not be held for more than a year. Of course, it would be so much easier for the user, if everything was end-to-end encrypted, and then it wouldn't need to be deleted.