Comments on: The Future Is Cloudy http://battellemedia.com/archives/2012/08/the-future-is-cloudy.php?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-future-is-cloudy Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Wed, 22 May 2013 20:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: johnbattelle http://battellemedia.com/archives/2012/08/the-future-is-cloudy.php#comment-30566 johnbattelle Thu, 30 Aug 2012 23:15:00 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/?p=6696#comment-30566 Yep. One of many, many such examples. Yep. One of many, many such examples.

]]> By: Brian Hayashi @connectme http://battellemedia.com/archives/2012/08/the-future-is-cloudy.php#comment-30564 Brian Hayashi @connectme Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:17:00 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/?p=6696#comment-30564 Here's a simple example. If the government visits your place of work or where you live and gets a subpoena to get data off your hard drive, you know about the intrusion, where it came from, and there's a readily-available body of work and associated experts that can counsel you on what to do next. But thanks to the cloud, the government can do exactly the same thing by visiting your vendor, getting the information that you have asked to be copied from your hard drive, and you might never, ever know. Why is this so important? Increasingly, country C is going to be more aggressive about asking company G for information about their end users, many of whom may not even be citizens of country C, in exchange for access to their country. Sovereignty is to countries what privacy is to individuals. Here’s a simple example. If the government visits your place of work or where you live and gets a subpoena to get data off your hard drive, you know about the intrusion, where it came from, and there’s a readily-available body of work and associated experts that can counsel you on what to do next. But thanks to the cloud, the government can do exactly the same thing by visiting your vendor, getting the information that you have asked to be copied from your hard drive, and you might never, ever know.

Why is this so important?

Increasingly, country C is going to be more aggressive about asking company G for information about their end users, many of whom may not even be citizens of country C, in exchange for access to their country. Sovereignty is to countries what privacy is to individuals.

]]> By: johnbattelle http://battellemedia.com/archives/2012/08/the-future-is-cloudy.php#comment-30561 johnbattelle Thu, 30 Aug 2012 15:14:00 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/?p=6696#comment-30561 The science and the transparency are way early stages The science and the transparency are way early stages

]]> By: Anuj Agarwal http://battellemedia.com/archives/2012/08/the-future-is-cloudy.php#comment-30558 Anuj Agarwal Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:16:00 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/?p=6696#comment-30558 It's raining Big Data across the web. But i have to agree with you when you say "it’s so damn abstract". A simple example - Twitter and Facebook has so much data about me but the recommendations they show me does not make sense most of the times. It’s raining Big Data across the web. But i have to agree with you when you say “it’s so damn abstract”. A simple example – Twitter and Facebook has so much data about me but the recommendations they show me does not make sense
most of the times.

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