Imagine if the US hacked into the Chinese data repository on their citizens?
Imagine if the US hacked into the Russian data repository on their citizens?
I'm sure it's already happened, and I'm sure it is not a huge coincidence that Google and Facebook are not the biggest search / social networking companies in those countries.
No idea about the others mentioned.
Oh and what about if those countries respective agencies have an agreement to share certain data amongst each other to make things a little easier?
Imagine if the US hacked into the Chinese data repository on their citizens?
> Imagine if the US hacked into the Russian data repository on their citizens?
"Your copying all of my private data from several sources to the nsa, what is another country hacks that and copy it ?"
"No worry, we can hack them and copy their citizens data too"
I fail to see how to answer the concern for the question, or how that should be reassuring in anyway. That we can, or cannot, or already do similar data repository in other countries is irrelevant to the question "should all of my data be aggregated in a single juicy store".
I'm not even sure I agree with OP's premises (especially since I'm an European, for me the NSA thing is a foreign governement spying on me and I expect the EU new data privacy laws to be much more strict than the safe harbor joke we've had so far), but your answer doesn't address it at all.
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Imagine if the US hacked into the Chinese data repository on their citizens?
Imagine if the US hacked into the Russian data repository on their citizens?
I'm sure it's already happened, and I'm sure it is not a huge coincidence that Google and Facebook are not the biggest search / social networking companies in those countries.
No idea about the others mentioned.
Oh and what about if those countries respective agencies have an agreement to share certain data amongst each other to make things a little easier?
"Your copying all of my private data from several sources to the nsa, what is another country hacks that and copy it ?" "No worry, we can hack them and copy their citizens data too"
I fail to see how to answer the concern for the question, or how that should be reassuring in anyway. That we can, or cannot, or already do similar data repository in other countries is irrelevant to the question "should all of my data be aggregated in a single juicy store".
I'm not even sure I agree with OP's premises (especially since I'm an European, for me the NSA thing is a foreign governement spying on me and I expect the EU new data privacy laws to be much more strict than the safe harbor joke we've had so far), but your answer doesn't address it at all.