Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [12/06/07 02:03 +0200]:
..."Written and spoken fluency in Mandarin, Cantonese or Japanese a
plus."[1]
thanks to seth finkelstein for drawing my attention to this, in a
comment [2] to danny sullivan's deconstruction [3] of privacy
international's report [4] singling out google as the worst for privacy.
1. A law enforcement subpoena or a court order from a country you do
business in (and Google does business in mainland china, hk, taiwan and
japan) is the sort of thing you dont comply with at your peril.
2. Handling and complying with subpoenas doesnt mean "roll over and give
out what all the subpoena asks for" .. for example in the case of civil
subpoenas, or even "information request letters" (eg: RIAA and its ilk)
3. That still doesnt mean people other than those with an account in the
country where the subpoena's authority holds will find their data open to
that subpoena. Any large operation learns to have a careful separation
between its operations that way.
