On Dec 17, 1:56 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > Apart this fine and constructive statement, there's a valid argument IMHO: > > "In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a > company's machines instead of your own," Stallman tells /The Guardian/ > <http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/dec/14/chrome-os-richa...>. > "The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data > from you; but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can > get it without showing you anything. They may not even have to give the > company a search warrant."
It's even worse for us Europeans: Google officially maintains that European (privacy) laws don't apply to them since the data processing happens in the U.S. I'm sure other companies feel the same. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
