> Post "the Fappening" and the realization that there are essentially no enforceable protections for information you store in the cloud
I don't think that is a fair statement. I've got financial/billing information for many people that moves across the internet. We haven't had any serious breaches that compromise that information.
A fair statement would be "Apple et al. do not find it cost effective to secure such data while simultaneously pleasing shareholders and law enforcement."
The moment Apple, etc. wants to try to secure it more, the Government complains about it publicly and trots out bullshit about catching pedophiles. The Government's methods are actually more dangerous to children since making that data insecurable guarantees people who are willing to break the law can get to it.
The Government doesn't want the data secured because it would complicate things for them yet the Government simultaneously says they have the right to all such data.
It is really evidence of a systemic bias in how the system works. Sure, the Judge can't really do anything [without being accused of activism and likely overturned by appeal] but that doesn't make this 'less bad'.
If it wasn't a general Government position that this was true, they should have muzzled their people and/or issued statements stating it was the position of those people and not the Government as a whole.
I don't think that is a fair statement. I've got financial/billing information for many people that moves across the internet. We haven't had any serious breaches that compromise that information.
A fair statement would be "Apple et al. do not find it cost effective to secure such data while simultaneously pleasing shareholders and law enforcement."
The moment Apple, etc. wants to try to secure it more, the Government complains about it publicly and trots out bullshit about catching pedophiles. The Government's methods are actually more dangerous to children since making that data insecurable guarantees people who are willing to break the law can get to it.
The Government doesn't want the data secured because it would complicate things for them yet the Government simultaneously says they have the right to all such data.
It is really evidence of a systemic bias in how the system works. Sure, the Judge can't really do anything [without being accused of activism and likely overturned by appeal] but that doesn't make this 'less bad'.
If it wasn't a general Government position that this was true, they should have muzzled their people and/or issued statements stating it was the position of those people and not the Government as a whole.