Comment by tomohawk
2 years ago
Agree, but this is not new.
This data is not legally yours, since its not on equipment you own or rent.
If the same exact service was on property you owned or rented, they would need a warrant.
Speculating here, but if you paid for a service, and the terms of service were such that you had rental rights to the equipment and ownership of the data, then the US govt would need a warrant. But then the company would not be able to sell the data since it would actually be yours.
I'd pay for a service that was like that.
> I'd pay for a service that was like that.
Email was like that, until Gmail ruined it and you can no longer run your own mail server without being blacklisted everywhere.
The Fediverse is kind of like this, except it's not really designed for private data; its primary use-case is publishing.