<story><title>Google Takeout means something else in light of PRISM</title><url>https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2013/06/07/takeout/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>Let&amp;#x27;s all do a blogpost on PRISM and see how many eyeballs we can get.&lt;p&gt;Google takeout most likely has nothing whatsoever to do with PRISM or any other NSA programme, why go through a clunky one-user-at-a-time batch process when you can be comfortably sitting right where the action is, where updates are incremental and where information is available when it happens instead of when you ask for it.&lt;p&gt;Push over pull any day for the NSA and the likes.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Takeout means something else in light of PRISM</title><url>https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2013/06/07/takeout/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Udo</author><text>Exporting every account on a daily basis can&amp;#x27;t possible work for Google &lt;i&gt;or&lt;/i&gt; the government. To be scalable and useful, and to meet the &amp;quot;no direct access to our servers&amp;quot; mantra, they would instead need for Google to replicate all database updates straight onto the NSA servers.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s no small feat, and it certainly requires explicit engineering effort, but it&amp;#x27;s not a hugely complex undertaking either. Maybe the infrastructure of Takeout can &lt;i&gt;also&lt;/i&gt; be used to do that, but the data transmission itself would have to work differently. Again, I believe it has to be basically a data pipe that replicates every user action, probably in real time.</text></comment>