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Except that image isn't accessible to anyone except the owner, or MAYBE the NSA.

But I'm pretty sure the NSA doesn't care about looking at some random guy's ass.

In the unlikely case that they do need to investigate the ass for national security reasons, they aren't going to disseminate the picture to the world, similar to how they don't disseminate intelligence data.

Which means the ONLY way the public will see the ass-picture is if: a) The ass is of interest to national security AND b) The ass is of such concern to national security it is stored in the NSA's internal ass-database AND c) There exists some kind of ass-Snowden that leaks all the asses in the NSA arsenal.

...why does anyone care about this?

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> Except that image isn't accessible to anyone except the owner

Good point, it's true that cloud servers containing personal information are never hacked, this is probably because most companies take security very seriously.

> But I'm pretty sure the NSA doesn't care about looking at some random guy's ass.

Exactly! It's not as if NSA employees have ever been known to abuse their power for personal or purely entertainment purposes!

> they aren't going to disseminate the picture to the world, similar to how they don't disseminate intelligence data.

Agreed, rest assured that your private photos and correspondences are safe in the hands of professionals who would never be interested in leaking personal or embarrassing data about innocent law abiding citizens.

> who would never be interested

Rephrasing Hanlon's razor, there's no need for malice where a simple fuck-up would suffice ;)

They don't need to be interested in leaking personal data, they just have to make a mistake that would allow such leak. And introducing bugs isn't not something unheard of, even for pros.

This picture will remain in the cloud for eternity.

When assial recognition software becomes more prevalent, they can use this image to match his identity to future crimes (in which he leaves an ass print behind).

For example, G+ photos are accessible to anyone who knows the URL, no matter what privacy settings say.

I bet, one don't need to work for any mighty TLA to steal URL from someone's browsing history. And one may be as security-conscious as possible, but still mis-paste the URL into a wrong window. Or something like this.

I almost didn't downvote because of "ass-Snowden".

Consider a variety of legal things someone might do in their home that could be useful to a government looking to discredit that person.

And there are real cases through history of government agencies trying to discredit someone, or worse.

>Except that image isn't accessible to anyone except the owner, or MAYBE the NSA.

It is accessible to some google employees.

This might be my favourite dismissal of privacy concerns right after If You Are Not A Criminal You Have Nothing To Worry About.

I think OP dismissed his own privacy concerns when he walked bare-assed in front of the camera he set up to email him pictures of whatever moves in front of it.

This is not an issue of privacy, it's just an absence of common sense.

> I think OP dismissed his own privacy concerns when he walked bare-assed in front of the camera he set up to email him pictures of whatever moves in front of it.

And he owns up to that fact. He knows that he was acting carelessly. And then he realized that it was not a good idea, and so he stopped doing it. He's not saying that Google planted a camera in his house without his consent!

It's just a "I fucked up; don't make the same mistake and trust a company with that kind of data"-story.

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