I would be dumbfounded if they have not received at least one letter. It probably rhymed with "Most of your customers can decide to offboard with you and delete all their data with an API call. This one can't anymore. Sincerely, Your Friends In Government"
@patio11
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Binance AWS regulatory incentives Big Tech leverage
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A further aside: I was a bit surprised when I learned that Binance was on AWS, given my mental model for who can send Amazon / subsidiaries a strongly worded letter. Then I realized, from the perspective of the letter center, that is *extremely* incentive compatible, isn't it.
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Google Legal Protection Affordable Option for Business Communications
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You can't afford Google's lawyers, but you can get option value on at least a timeshare of them for $8 a month or whatever. Which should perhaps factor into decisions as to where one wants to keep e.g. consequential business communications more than it does.
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Big Tech Lawyers Defend Against Excessive Government Data Requests
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Asidee: it is broadly underappreciated by customers of cloud services that one of the things you buy from AppAmaGooBookSoft is that their lawyers, and not your lawyers, will push back on the United States federal government when it requests things those lawyers find excessive.
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US Judge Orders Microsoft to Hand Over EU-Stored Data
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Cite: https://
computerweekly.com/news/224021965
6/Cloud-privacy-fears-loom-as-US-judge-asks-Microsoft-to-hand-over-data-held-in-Dublin
… I do not think this is the only time I've seen this argument, but cannot remember which Crypto Shenanigans indictment it was in. But I remember being mildly surprised because a) Microsoft and b) well-regarded EU nation getting manhandled by U.S. -
US jurisdiction over Microsoft European infrastructure raises regulatory concerns
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A fascinating tangent, right! The U.S. has previously asserted jurisdiction over, minimally, workloads in Microsoft infrastructure physically located in Europe, basically entirely on the "Come on, you're Microsoft, give us what we want" theory. Will try to come up with cite.
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Platform UX Degradation and Behavioral Conditioning Effects
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Same, and while they’re not likely to DDOS me off of the service, they are clearly Pavlovian training me that today is worse than two years ago right after moments that should be my peak happy usage moments.
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Binance CZ Crypto Compliance Strategy Under Scrutiny
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Today in Bits about Money: an in-depth explanation of the shorthand that I've used for a few years about crypto jurisdictional gamesmanship. Binance and CZ, major practitioners of the Bond villain compliance strategy, are having a bit of a rough week.
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Why Businesses Need Better Computing Speed
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There are boring technical reasons for that, and they're clearly wrong, right? We live in a world where all businesses should be able to add numbers together very, very quickly.
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Large Businesses Struggle with Basic Computational Speed
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You'd be surprised how many extremely large, sophisticated businesses, which all have very many computers, cannot add numbers together really, really quickly.