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So, just make it impossible for even the vendor to read the (unencrypted) data. The most the vendor could do is hand over encrypted data, leaving authorities to try to decrypt it without the key. Or try to force the owner to give up the key.

One such new offering is IBM Hyper Protect DBAAS:

Hyper Protect DBaaS: the evolution of cloud databases

Getting started with IBM Cloud Hyper Protect DBaaS

IBM® hosts your databases in a highly available and secure environment:

The underlying technologies prevent IBM or a third party from being able to access your data.
The IBM Secure Service Container technology protects the system via a tamper-proof environment. Access to the system is restricted and is only enabled through well-defined RESTful APIs.

Data is encrypted at rest and in flight.
The system hardware, the system configuration, and the database setup ensure high availability.

BTW, this doesn't run on Intel hardware. It runs on IBM Z hardware, on dedicated cores per instance, which should minimize the potential for Spectre-type attacks.

IBM is rolling this out aggressively. How aggressively?

For now, they are handing out well-provisioned Postgres (8G memory, 80G data) and MongoDB (8G memory, 40G data) experimental instances for free.
Only reason I am not taking them up on this is that I know we won't be able to afford the price, once it is not free. I'll stick with out 1G memory Databases for PostgreSql instance for our little educational app.

Hyper Protect DBaaS (pricing)

Not an IBM shill. Just happy to not be drinking the AWS kool aid.

So, just make it impossible for even the vendor to read the (unencrypted) data. The most the vendor could do is hand over encrypted data, leaving authorities to try to decrypt it without the key. Or try to force the owner to give up the key.

One such new offering is IBM Hyper Protect DBAAS:

Hyper Protect DBaaS: the evolution of cloud databases

Getting started with IBM Cloud Hyper Protect DBaaS

IBM® hosts your databases in a highly available and secure environment:

The underlying technologies prevent IBM or a third party from being able to access your data.
The IBM Secure Service Container technology protects the system via a tamper-proof environment. Access to the system is restricted and is only enabled through well-defined RESTful APIs.

Data is encrypted at rest and in flight.
The system hardware, the system configuration, and the database setup ensure high availability.

BTW, this doesn't run on Intel hardware. It runs on IBM Z hardware, on dedicated cores per instance, which should minimize the potential for Spectre-type attacks.

IBM is rolling this out aggressively. How aggressively?

For now, they are handing out well-provisioned Postgres (8G memory, 80G data) and MongoDB (8G memory, 40G data) experimental instances for free.
Only reason I am not taking them up on this is that I know we won't be able to afford the price, once it is not free. I'll stick with out 1G memory Databases for PostgreSql instance for our little educational app.

Hyper Protect DBaaS (pricing)

Not an IBM shill. Just happy to not be drinking the AWS kool aid.

I downloaded my data in 2-GB pieces. One of the mysteries is that the last two pieces were in total less than 2 GB. Each of the pieces contains a number of folders, many of which have the same names. There is only one index.html file in the last piece, but it does not work the same way as the Facebook archive you can download. I've been poking at the data in various ways, but so far haven't been able to make hide nor hair of it.

Perhaps it will be helpful to consider another version? This one is from IBM and is called personality insights: https://personality-insights-d... The link is already old, but it gives you about 15 dimensions of personality based on text you wrote. I recommend using the "Body of Text" tab for most control. There's also a kind of radar display of about 70 dimensions grouped into various categories.

IBM is ready for you, have at it: https://quantumexperience.ng.b...

That's free access to a 20 qbit machine via the web.

IBM recently bought SoftLayer, and is now offering a cloud with a bunch of additional enterprise services at https://console.ng.bluemix.net... .

Required disclaimer: While I am an IBM employee, my opinions are my own and do not represent the IBM corporation. In fact, being a publicly traded corporation, I don't think IBM can have opinions other than "it is good to fulfill one's fiduciary duties".