Surveillance CEO Barry Levine refuses cloud storage due to fundamental distrust
Barry Levine · 30 Years of Surveillance Footage Later: Privacy Is Already Dead · Oct 12, 2021 · at 16:24
Barry Levine, founder and CEO of covert surveillance manufacturer Sperry West, explains his company's data storage policies to host Sean Weisbrot.
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“Maybe being old fashioned about all of this, I don't trust the cloud. Therefore we do not store information on the cloud. And we do store it on our own backups.”
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