> The slide into a "police state" is just getting all so convenient with all this "bait" to tempt people to give up every aspect of their personal lives.
While you're right that it's conceivable the government would try to gain access to information in the cloud based on past behaviours, the motivation you ascribe to private companies is what makes your claim ridiculous. The suggestion that technology companies are only offering cloud services to bait their customers to make it easier for the government to spy on them, rather than because it's a useful service that people demand, is what makes you paranoid. Just because the government might spy on email, phones or cloud data, it doesn't follow that phones, email and the cloud must have been invented or propagated simply so the government could spy! That's an absurd motivation to ascribe to companies like Microsoft, Apple and Google, who lets face it, just want to make money by providing services. Some companies may be indifferent to spying, that does mean they are specifically motivated to encourage it.
While you're right that it's conceivable the government would try to gain access to information in the cloud based on past behaviours, the motivation you ascribe to private companies is what makes your claim ridiculous. The suggestion that technology companies are only offering cloud services to bait their customers to make it easier for the government to spy on them, rather than because it's a useful service that people demand, is what makes you paranoid. Just because the government might spy on email, phones or cloud data, it doesn't follow that phones, email and the cloud must have been invented or propagated simply so the government could spy! That's an absurd motivation to ascribe to companies like Microsoft, Apple and Google, who lets face it, just want to make money by providing services. Some companies may be indifferent to spying, that does mean they are specifically motivated to encourage it.
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