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I agree this is a good practice, but if you have to do this to defend yourself against the rogue actions of a service you’re paying for, you’re probably better off not suing the service.

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Different services have different and unclear expectations. For example, you'd imagine that a big online storage service would have some access controls in place to limit what uploaded data random employees in operations and engineering can see, but in at least one case you'd be totally wrong. This strikes me as a perfectly reasonable expectation - the data isn't just sitting there exposed to arbitrary employees and that only trusted employees have that kind of access, and not broadly.

I don't think this is rogue actions, I think it falls into the category of perfectly reasonable expectations that are not actually met by a wide variety of cloud services.

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