Re:Self hosting is important
by cube00 on Saturday July 24, 2021 @09:59AM
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Any company's legal department is like HR, it's role is to protect the company, not the employees and certainly not the customers.
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Even more so for non-paying users, as in gmail or facebook.
Especially when the companies are already happily selling account metadata.
Getting a reputation for handing customer data over to the government without a fight seems like the sort of thing that would damage a hosting company.
Having a poor data security reputation?
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.
>It didn't effect Experian.
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".