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by antimagic 3925 days ago
"This is incredibly bad"

It is? Please explain why other people should be prepared to go to gaol or businesses should pay heavy fines to protect my personal information from legal(1) government requests? Particularly when I apparently don't care enough about the privacy of said information to the point that I allow it to be stored in the US, where apparently these sorts of shenanigans go on?

Edit: (because I'm being downvoted to death, which I don't think the comment deserves)

These companies agree that our data should be private and protected. They are not prepared to take heavy penalties to protect those rights. Anger should not be directed at these companies, but rather at the completely fucked up US government approach to privacy. At the end of the day, whether these companies fight and get fined out of existence, or comply, the government will still end up getting your data. That's the problem, and it's the US government that has betrayed people, not the companies listed by this stupid site.

1. I'm personally dubious as to the legality of these orders, but for now the US judiciary don't seem to be opposing the executive on this one, at least for the time being, so hey, I guess it's legal...