Government solely should be held accountable for disrespecting privacy rights. If the government issues a request to the cloud vendor, the vendor becomes liable to honour it. The web is not something itself; it is made of people and groups and the interface. The users cant be blamed as they are the targets.
Extracting enterprises' or individuals' data without showing a warrant to them is unacceptable even if it is the government that extracts it. If this is happening and enterprises start getting aware of this, then this can be a dismal situation for cloud businesses. There needs to be a more explanatory law which defines the boundaries of the government when it comes to issuing data requests.
Question is: Who should be held accountable for that lack of privacy? Users or internet or web service providers? It is certainly not the government, right?
You are right, as the technology gets less expensive, it will be easier for the government to run queries on everyone's data. I guess, users should start looking for better ways to prevent the web service providers (Google, Microsoft, or Amazon) from complying to government's requests
"Internet is public domain, no privacy is enforced."
That is not quite right. We are talking about data that is supposed to be held confident and secured behind internet or webservice providers' datacenters. If your email service providers fail to secure your personal information - that you are not sharing in the public domain, that will be a breach of their service level agreement and they should be held responsible for any damage you may suffer due to their lack of protecting your privacy.
Exactly! Just because some of these sites claim to have privacy settings, it is still on a public domain as you have stated. As we have seen time and time again, unwanted personal information is readily revealed into the wrong hands when dealing with the Internet.
The chances now of any of us being targeted by this kind of government query are very small. However, we can expect that they will become more commonplace as this technology, as with all others, becomes less expensive and more commonplace.
As Jeff Jarvis says in regard to privacy regulation: Government is not the protector of privacy. Government is the enemy of privacy.
The way is see it: When your are in the Internet and you start sharing information about yourself you can not expect privacy. Internet is public domain, no privacy is enforced. We have to lower our expectations around privacy if we are going to continue to use tools available in a public domain.
One thing that I take away from this article is the fact that Google is making this easy for governments: while I am sure that there is a process in place, the number of requests for information from Google is rising. And the number of requests rising, as a result, is also rising. Governments realize the importance of Google as a tool for collecting information, and are going to utilize it as much as possible. It's a concern for the average citizen, especially when many don't fully understand the impact of using Google's services.
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