>There are huge legal ramifications if Microsoft or other cloud providers
>start snooping into financial data or business intellectual property.
Yup. Illegal. Yup. :-)
You should watch those videos. Eben directly addresses these points. Paraphrased from memory ... "It used to be illegal to peek inside the package you, as a courier, were delivering for someone from point A and point B. It was a crime. There were punishments for doing this. Today..."
>That could be defined as corporate espionage and is illegal. Additionally,
>governments are and will use cloud services, so you start getting into the
>area of national security and espionage, also illegal. Then there are other
>privacy concerns under things like HIPAA. Absolutely illegal for anyone not
>authorized to even look at those records.
All I can say is watch the videos, my young apprentice. :-) You too shall see. The biggest concern is that it works so well, that the BI layers atop existing mined sources like Facebook, Amazon, Google and others, reveals so much information that it's too tempting a target not to have. And Microsoft ... how can they remain out for long? Bing exists for a reason, Mr. Berntson ... and it's not just the obvious, known, documented ones. Eben even uses the quote "...and bing, you're dead. Oh, did I say that? Bing. You're dead."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKOk4Y4inVYhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2VHf5vpBy8For those who don't know, Eben Moglen is a "Professor of Law and Legal History" at Columbia University Law School. He also works for the Software Freedom Law Center.
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/
