US Government: You Don't Own Your Cloud Data So We Can Access It At Any Time

[Melvin Carvalho]

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/11/02/1737219/us-government-you-dont-own-your-cloud-data-so-we-can-access-it-at-any-time

[Nick Jennings]

On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Melvin Carvalho
<melvinc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/11/02/1737219/us-government-you-dont-own-your-cloud-data-so-we-can-access-it-at-any-time

This is exactly the kind of stuff that made me averse (putting it
lightly) to the "web apps in the cloud" movement in the first place,
and why I think remoteStorage.js - and technologies like it - are an
absolute necessity.

This brings up an important aspect of the terms of service agreements.
Even if the agreements are pretty good, and you "trust" the company,
unless you maintain sole ownership of your data there's nothing
stopping the government from accessing your data via. the company and
in this case even preventing you access to it.

Actually, that brings up a few other questions:

1. What are the specific terms for the existing rs storage providers?

2. If the agreement says "you maintain complete ownership of your data
and we are merely providing redundancy and ease of access to your
data" does that mean that your data is protected by law and even if
law enforcement had reason to believe there was "illegal data" in one
of the rs accounts, that they'd have to get a warrant for that
specific person and not the provider company as a whole where they
would be able to access anyones data?

Cheers
Nick