Everyone Wants You To Have Security, But Not from Them

Sun, 08 Mar 2015 13:04:57 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/02/everyone_wants_.html

"Eric Schmidt does want your data to be secure. He wants Google to be
the safest place for your data ­ as long as you don't mind the fact that
Google has access to your data. Facebook wants the same thing: to
protect your data from everyone except Facebook."

Hardly anyone really wants to do all the hard parts themselves, so it's
nearly always necessary to outsource to someone.  Whoever you choose,
they will always have incentives to make as much use of your personal
data as they can - which is why strong privacy laws setting limits on
what is permissible are necessary.

Via Irreverent Monk.

Cheers,
        *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net                   Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/             Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/                Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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