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Amazon Vows To Fight Government Requests For Data

Posted by samzenpus on 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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  1. You Brave Companies, You by RyoShin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How nice that, after these revelations, suddenly all of these companies are coming forward with data and vows to fight or announcing requests to reveal information, etc. Where were these Brave Defenders of Consumers^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HCitizens before Snowden?

    (Of course, without the public knowledge it would be a lot easier for the government to silence businesses or influential people who did try to fight this stuff, but something tells me that all of this is about trying to re-establish consumer trust and loyalty, and is shit-all about trying to protect our Fourth Amendment rights.)

  2. Ahem... by SJ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is the same Amazon that just won an $800m bid to host the CIA's cloud computing system?

    Uh huh.