Facebook is being fined for rerouting data from South Korea to Hong Kong and the US without warning users. I was surprised by this for several reasons, but the idea that users get notified when their services are rerouted was really eye popping. See story at Did anyone ever see a warning notice that said “Your services are now being rerouted to another country” ? Really? Our services get rerouted all the time to other countries and none of those clouds or vendors using them, ever says anything. South Korea is really breaking new ground here.
What really concerned me was routing data to Hong Kong where Chinese censorship applies. Can we assume that traffic was being intercepted by censors, reviewed, and stored. Lots of data from South Korea would then be available to Chinese intelligence. Facebook probably didn’t even think about that. That makes them careless or stupid. You pick.
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