> When you self-host, the government has to come to you for your data.
Sure, but my ability to stop them is probably substantially smaller than, say, Amazon’s legal departments capabilities.
Sure, but my ability to stop them is probably substantially smaller than, say, Amazon’s legal departments capabilities.
A few months later, all my personal gmail account are seized and I reveive an email (that I could read after changing my password) from a police department in god fuck knows where middle of nowhere countryside asking me for data on the proxy usage.
Sadly I had revoked the server subscription since I didnt need it anymore (and probably hadnt kept any logs anyway since I was just playing aroud with a server) but I really really wanted to help.
I mean, it s rare the police would call you for a legitimate usage and political suppression. They call you for fraud with damage and it s awful being responsible in small part but unable to help... I was not mad they read all my emails, I was sorry someone lost money because of my mistake.
Maybe I haven't had enough coffee, but I'm failing to connect how leaving a proxy open was a major enabler for fraud. What kind of fraud?
Amazon? Trust? People trust Amazon to exist and to bill. Providing services to those who pay the bills is almost incidental.
Especially when the companies are already happily selling account metadata.
It didn't effect Experian.
https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/another-data-leak...
It didn't effect Yahoo.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/might-mother-password-le...
It didn't effect Sony.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomgara/sony-hack
It didn't effect AT&T.
You, as a consumer don't really get to choose experian or not.
>It didn't effect Yahoo.
Who says it didn't?
>It didn't effect Sony.
So a bunch of internal business documents got leaked. As a consumer I couldn't care less.
>It didn't effect AT&T.
If every provider was mandated to do this, then I wouldn't call it "poor data security reputation".
Depending on the legal issue at stake, it might also be possible to access additional legal expertise pro bono, or through an organization like the ACLU.
Even Twitter doesn’t like to roll over, and they’ve got a lot less at stake. https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-05-17/twitter-fi...
Also, you can encrypt it with keys that they will NOT use to decrypt.
The data will also NOT leave the region (or country) that you specify
Shredding the data on your own hard drive gives you a pretty good guarantee. Drilling a big gaping hole through it afterwards gives you an even better one.