Over the past couple of years, there’s been huge push to using the cloud to collaborate on projects and to store personal data and do all kinds of activities, but with the recent revelations that a been in the news about the NSA surveilling people online. The major companies that have been reported as participating in the illegal wiretapping and surveillance continue to deny any participation in any kind of program of this magnitude. Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, Verizon and AT&T, among others, one complete deniability in participating in anything like this because they want to do this on their own. They don’t need the government to do it.
It wasn’t bad enough that when MegaUpload was raided and private citizens information was confiscated without notice. And of course once that information had been confiscated everything was up for review. No customer of MegaUpload was immune from having their data reviewed by the government.
