Microsoft and Google may have to surrender people’s data to Saudi Arabia after signing huge deals there::Saudi Arabia is seeking to be an innovation hub, but activists are warning that tech firms could be complicit in the repression of dissidents.

  • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.world
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    For those who keep parroting that poor big-tech has to respect local cultures and laws and that there’s nothing they could do, I remind you that atheists are literally considered terrorists in Saudi Arabia. So in theory, a court order could only invoke anti-terrorism as the motive and compel Google and Microsoft to hand over private conversations of suspected atheists and these companies would then say they did nothing wrong because they just complied with an anti-terrorism search warrant.

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    I think it might be time to advocate for individual ownership of our own ‘data’

    I don’t see any good reason why our data isn’t protected under law and any attempt to monetize should be done through contracts to each person who’s data is being used and payments made to those people

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      Government failure to protect citizens’ right to privacy is one of, if not thee, largest money-maker Big Tech was gifted. :/

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      Gonna be real hard to pass any law about that when the companies making huge profits off of our data can legally bribe politicians to prevent the vote from reaching the legislative floor.

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      That relies on a country’s goodwill to implement such a idea. In europe with gdpr we are kind of going there and it’s already a massive mess. I find also kind of hard to define ownership; where does it ends? Is derivative data one’s ownership ? When properly anonymised? Plenty of fun in the field really.

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    Yet more proof that each and every company is willing to sell human rights. Some companies price it higher than others, but they all have a price.

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    Wait, so Saudi Arabia hasn’t requested this data, Microsoft and Google haven’t offered this data, the only reason “analysts” think they could get this data is because if they have offices there they might request the data? Lol what kind of clickbait journalism is this, why on earth would Google and Microsoft, or any tech company for that matter, risk handing over user data to any country at all and locking themselves out of every other country on earth? Get this ragebait nonsense out of here.

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    I can’t believe I might go to Linux. It looks more appealing all the time.

    What are phone options?

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    Final nail im the coffin, I’m deleting that shit for good.