To whom it may concern

[oryx_and_crake]

If you use Cyrillic in your journal then SUP, a RF-based company that recently came into agreement with SixApart, may receive access to your journal and your private information
http://community.livejournal.com/lj_biz/239637.html
Once this happens, no one can guarantee any kind of privacy for your personal info. Your data may be stolen and abused or sold to whoever wants it. This happens to people who use Cyrillic OR write in Russian OR use a Russian version of a browser.
http://skuns.livejournal.com/345523.html

UPDATE: my main worry is not the KGB (as most people thought for some obscure reason) but dubious uses of the clients' private info (including a credit card number, by the way, if you paid for your account with one) by anyone who would care to obtain it. Right now the access to people's info is governed by the privacy laws of SixApart jurisdiction. There is no such thing as privacy in Russia, no privacy laws enforcement, and anyone can have your info by bribing or harassing SUP employees (and the SUP employees may also want to have some fun at the expense of the clients).

And, last but not least, I don't like the idea of buying a service from a company whose CEO publicly calls its clients cunts ("мудаки") as Nosik did very recently in a LJ posting during the discussion of this issue. Yes, I distrust Nosik and Russian "businesspeople" in general much more than US government or security agencies of any kind.

Comments

Re: Sorry for my bad English

[oryx_and_crake]

It is my right, as a customer, to choose which service I purchase and from who. I don't have to give any reasons for my choice and no one has the right to replace the service I have chosen with another one or switch me to a different provider without my conscent.

Re: Sorry for my bad English

[hap-one.livejournal.com]

have you actually read your service agreement? was it broken by the decision to have local management? and anyway your customer rights is not a reason to tell that Nosik will sell your personal data.

Re: Sorry for my bad English

[oryx_and_crake]

What do you mean by "local"? I do not live in Russia. And switching my service to another provider based only on the fact that I write in Russian is a language-based discrimination.

BTW I never said that "Nosik will sell my personal data" - please don't put words into my mouth. I said that my data is not safe with a Russian-based company because the concept of privacy is nonexistent in Russia, the privacy laws, if any, are non-enforceable, and the data can easily get stolen or sold.

Re: Sorry for my bad English

[hap-one.livejournal.com]

It's not a discrimination, it doesn't change your service level agreement, if you have fobia of Russia it's not a reason to count that actually.

Have you any comparison of level stolen data in US and in Russia for example? Why do you think in US your data is safer?

Just to inform you, in Russia exist law of private and personal information, which is generally the same as in US.

Re: Sorry for my bad English

[oryx_and_crake]

in Russia exist law of private and personal information, which is generally the same as in US.
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HA HA HA HA HA

Re: Sorry for my bad English

[hap-one.livejournal.com]

ok, will leave you with your paranoia

Re: Sorry for my bad English

[oryx_and_crake]

P.S. By the way, some Russian-speaking US citizens are going to sue SixApart.

If you are interested, they describe their reasons here:
http://mkay422.livejournal.com/349611.html
http://mkay422.livejournal.com/351163.html

Re: Sorry for my bad English

[hap-one.livejournal.com]

your links text looks like petty cares of people who don't have really positive reasoning to promote theyself and they ready to use any stupid reason to make their noise...

Re: Sorry for my bad English

[oryx_and_crake]

Oh, now you are insulting me and other people you have never seen. Nosik is truly a "businessman" after your own heart.