>cloud services, meanwhile, are the property of their owners as well, with all of the expectations of societal responsibility and law-abiding which that entails.
This is already a shifted/normalized perspective.
If I rent an apartment or a house, it comes with an expectation of privacy. I don't know where to draw the line exactly, but a dumb storage-only cloud service should carry the same expectations. Things get more complex if a service is actually doing something with the data.
But the broader point is that with cloud services, we've already given up some established legal expectations of privacy without much awareness or realization, let alone resistance.
This is already a shifted/normalized perspective.
If I rent an apartment or a house, it comes with an expectation of privacy. I don't know where to draw the line exactly, but a dumb storage-only cloud service should carry the same expectations. Things get more complex if a service is actually doing something with the data.
But the broader point is that with cloud services, we've already given up some established legal expectations of privacy without much awareness or realization, let alone resistance.