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Is anyone concerned that the Chinese government can potentially have unrestricted access to anything you store with them? Sorry to take that tack but I see no

Is anyone concerned that the Chinese government can potentially have unrestricted access to anything you store with them? Sorry to take that tack but I see no way to trust your data to a Chinese owned company. Remember that in China you don't actually own busineses, you exist at the pleasure of their government. http://www.economist.com/node/18928526 http://www.economist.com/node/18928526 http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2014/05/11/china-can-expropriate-alibabas-business-and-it-just-might/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2014/05/11/china-can... http://www.wsj.com/articles/alibabas-political-risk-1411059836 http://www.wsj.com/articles/alibabas-political-risk-14110598... I wouldn't consider their cloud service for a microsecond, no matter how cheap it might be.

roysimkes 11y ago
Are you not concerned that US government can potentially have unrestricted access to anything you store with Amazon, Google or Microsoft? Or are we already accepted the fact that NSA knows everything anyway?
- rebootthesystem 11y ago
  It is very different. Here you are, ultimately, protected by laws. As a user of a cloud service run by a Chinese company that on any given monday afternoon could be taken over in whole or in part by the Chinese government (without it becoming public), you have nothing. If the deplorable state of intellectual property, human rights, labor laws, currency and market manipulation don't spell out what kind of a regime we are dealing with I don't know what will.