Amazon Vows To Fight Government Requests For Data

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @02:00PM from the why-don't-you-make-me dept.

itwbennett writes "Speaking at a cloud panel discussion hosted by Reuters on Wednesday, Terry Wise, head of global partner ecosystem for Amazon Web Services, explained how the company handles government requests for data stored on Amazon's cloud: 'If a U.S. entity is serving us with a legally binding subpoena, we contact our customer and work with that customer to fight the subpoena.' But Wise's best advice to customers is to encrypt their data: 'If the data is encrypted, all we'd be handing over would be the cypher text,' he said."

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Re:Silence is Golden by noh8rz10 · 2013-06-19 14:08 · Score: 4, Funny

I can foresee a time when it won't be safe to even talk among ourselves. We'll need to send encrypted text messages to the person next to us.
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Re:In Contrast... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-06-19 15:22 · Score: 4, Funny

It's "smelt", not "smelled". Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!
Re:You Brave Companies, You by jez9999 · 2013-06-19 21:26 · Score: 4, Funny

Excuse me, but WHO'S data?
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