
The Cloud Panopticon: Google, Cloud Computing and the Surveillance-Industrial-Complex
Christopher Ketcham & Travis Kelly
EXTRACT:
“When private data is held by a third party like Google, the Supreme Court has ruled that you ‘assume the risk’ of disclosure of that data.” When you store e-mail at Gmail – or, similarly, in the cloud at Yahoo or Hotmail – “you lose your constitutional protections immediately.”




