Re:PRISM kills the cloud
by ianmcgowan on Monday June 10, 2013 @09:25PM
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J. Edgar Hoovered?
The most famous brand name of vacuum cleaners in the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hoover_Company, but, yes, it might be good to remember people like J. Edgar.
A lot of this has to do with how this data can be abused, e.g. for political purposes; in this case, it's almost certainly nothing to worry about, but there are many cases where there are damn good reasons for privacy.