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fafner · 2014-09-10 16:08:15+00:00

For people who don't trust outside companies (known to work with governments) with their confidential and/or expensive data.

pessimizer | karma 33733 | avg karma 2.47 · | 2022-08-28 18:49:40

The US government is not transparent, and people try their best not to trust the US with their data.

eurasiantiger | karma 1672 | avg karma 0.78 · | 2022-06-10 00:11:22

Corruption. They don’t trust their own people with data.

Nuzzerino | karma 1841 | avg karma 1.59 · | 2018-06-03 22:49:01+00:00

So they don't share data with the government? Tell us more.

jbigelow76 | karma 3586 | avg karma 3.25 · | 2015-06-04 18:16:36+00:00

Because people other than the government might want access to data you would rather them not have?

zzzcpan | karma 4245 | avg karma 1.44 · | 2019-12-03 00:37:31+00:00

It's not better to have your face or other data in a database within reach of your own government. Your government has power over you, other governments do not.

pier25 | karma 12682 | avg karma 2.35 · | 2018-02-22 13:39:18+00:00

You can't trust governments to have updated and reliable data.

mirimir | karma 16819 | avg karma 1.63 · | 2019-03-19 03:10:32+00:00

Sure, I don't trust government bureaucracies either.

However, they can easily get lots of compromising data from their own servers. Both from standard web server logs, and from their own scripts and tools.

Once you involve third-party analytics, though, there's another party to worry about. And not just about what they do with the data, but also about how carefully they manage it. That's arguably a key thing in GDPR.

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beaunative | karma 385 | avg karma 1.39 · | 2022-07-19 12:26:30

A regular person is way more at risk with their data collected and analyzed by their own government than a foreign one.

bitmapbrother | karma 1328 | avg karma 0.75 · | 2018-07-19 21:17:13+00:00

Well, at least they don't let governments have free unfettered access to their users data.

jessaustin | karma 25176 | avg karma 1.77 · | 2020-12-25 01:26:11+00:00

Some services don't want to deal with civil authorities, ever. Not keeping data that such authoritarians would like to confiscate is one way to do that.

kinkrtyavimoodh | karma 4896 | avg karma 5.07 · | 2020-05-02 22:06:48

All the more reason to not give that data to the government, right, if they don't already have it?

systematical | karma 1144 | avg karma 1.78 · | 2020-06-19 04:11:28+00:00

Good thing we don't willingly give that data to anyone.

richardw | karma 3457 | avg karma 2.33 · | 2021-06-04 05:45:05

Or a foreign government paying more to not give back the data. Just for the economic impact. One that might be under sanctions from the target country, say.

dmitrygr | karma 11233 | avg karma 3.24 · | 2019-09-06 18:18:55+00:00

Government data should either be entirely open to anyone freely, or not available except with a warrant. This middle ground is very scummy.

adrianN | karma 29995 | avg karma 2.78 · | 2020-06-22 13:34:39

If the government wants the data, an NGO offers almost no protection. The only safe choice is not to collect the data in the first place.

Kharvok | karma 157 | avg karma 1.91 · | 2021-12-08 15:44:49

We can't trust multinationals with our data. They will sell us all out.

Cymen | karma 414 | avg karma 2.37 · | 2014-04-30 16:25:02

Well a couple of other organizations that have lots of data and don't want to share their practices come to mind: NSA, FBI, etc.

tuxie_ | karma 342 | avg karma 2.3 · | 2022-07-19 03:01:37

Do you understand that your own government has even more power over you than a foreign one? It's in your best interest that no government collects this kind of data about you.

ravenstine | karma 20620 | avg karma 4.29 · | 2020-04-30 22:47:22+00:00

I'm sure they won't be able to deanonymize the data at the government's behest.