If you want to be pedantic about it - if the NSA, or any such agency demands to place a [backdoor of any sort] in an American company’s datacenter, they have to comply.
So, no, they (meta, Google, etc) won’t be handing over the data knowingly. But those devices placed there for sure aren’t running Minecraft servers.
We recognize that our business is critically dependent on sustaining the trust of customers, countries, and governments across Europe. We respect European values, comply with European laws, and actively defend Europe’s cybersecurity. Our support for Europe has always been – and always will be – steadfast.
None of that matters, since they still have to comply to American laws, which means they have to give access to European data if the US government requests it.
It’s kinda like good guy Hitler, because he killed Hitler.
Trump’s major achievement might be that the rest of the world starts relying less on the US.
Check out OP defending Apple in every comment in this thread. It would be funny if it weren’t so… yeah.
Full disclosure: I’m only responding at this headline and the blurp posted here. I haven’t seen the - oh lord, 3 hours?! - video. But I’m sure it will be very interesting for someone.
Ehm. So?
Just because [bad people group X] think that [bad thing Y] is bad, doesn’t mean they’re wrong.
There are good reasons to be anti AI (creators rights, for a starter , and at the same time, it’s not going to go away, and it will also improve our lives in ways that we cannot fathom right now. It’ll need (better) regulation for sure.
Having said that, I really don’t think inflammatory posts like these (Y is bad because associated with X) are going make things get better.