Discussion (1390 points, 2 days ago, 789 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47225130

So by offshoring things like this, Facebook is explicitly making it legal for the NSA et al to engage in what amounts to mass surveillance and do all the things to that data over in Nairobi that are explicitly illegal here in the states.

Maybe we should be banning the offshoring of tech jobs that could and should be done by Americans, not for any reasons of nationalism or isolationism, but for the simple reasons that our laws are not caught up to the fact that these companies are sending sensitive data all over the world. And if Facebook can't afford to pay US wages to sufficiently support their product, then maybe that product deserves to fail in the market.

We should also ban any transport of sensitive data beyond the border - our laws are built for services in America, and three letter agencies love to play the technical gotcha games with precise wording of the laws. Keep US data in the US, because our government is not to be trusted, and our corporations are not to be trusted, unless or until explicit and well designed laws and regulations rein in any potential abuses.

There isn't enough of a "creepy" push back to these things.

Remember all the "Google Glass is creepers spying on girls" posts from ages ago? That was real human behavior, and it's undoubtably going to happen with these devices at a high incidence rate.

I don't like a social media company enlisting its users to turn every private space into a 24/7 live stream.

Someone starts to look at goatse 24/7 with glasses on, then what

I have more followers!!

At least you get paid on OF

That's okay I guess? The negative part is the smell, which these glasses can't convey.