Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google's Nest to Hand Over Data 300 Times

Re:Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google's Nest to Hand... by VRay on Monday October 15, 2018 @12:57AM (#18217469)

Hey man, when I was working in that field, we had really strict controls on who could access the data. I had to sign A PIECE OF PAPER agreeing not to misuse customers' personal data before I could get at it. Plus I'm pretty sure the company did a cursory background check before they hired me. And there's a form that government intelligence employees have to click through sometimes before they get the data.

Privacy secured.

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Re:Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google's Nest to Hand... by TeMPOraL on Monday October 15, 2018 @02:35AM (#18217824)

Hey, good for you! But how am I to verify that other companies take the same level of care?

Also, just because engineers have to jump through hoops to be able to run SELECT on a database, doesn't mean marketroids and sales don't get free rein on using it (or passing it to other parties).

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Re:Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google's Nest to Hand... by iamnothere on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @08:21PM (#18234475)

I think your sarcasm detector may be broken.

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