Comment by jmalicki
11 hours ago
> They also have enough power to negotiate contracts with strong privacy provisions.
What privacy provisions would you want to add to AWS? Most of the reasonable strong privacy provisions you'd want are already there and/or available if you want to sign up for it, even including US Govt Top Secret data if you meet some approval.
If they decide to ignore the contract and violate the privacy provisions, the US government can punish them, can the company from future contracts, throw executive in jail.
If they violate their privacy agreement with me there's effectively no punishment I can get that they will actually feel. There would have to be a class action law suit and they always just settle those for some small amount and admit to no wrong doing
> If they decide to ignore the contract and violate the privacy provisions, the US government can punish them, can the company from future contracts, throw executive in jail.
To be honest, they'll just send a few million and some gold plated trinkets to the right people and it'll go away. You know that's how things work now in the US. Even if you're an actual convicted drug dealer you can have your mother say a few nice things and whoop there's your get out of jail free card. This stuff is peanuts compared to that.
If not they'll just stall in court and settle for peanuts after everyone is exhausted battling it out. That's what they've always done before the current government made it even easier. Fines are not a penalty, just a business expense.
Nobody important is going to do any time for this. Not in this America.