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WARNING: Do not touch @stkirsch NZ data!
It will get your storage account nuked and he doesn’t offer this disclaimer to those he asked to help him host it.
It will get your storage account nuked and he doesn’t offer this disclaimer to those he asked to help him host it.
https://twitter.com/kevin_mckernan/status/1731860129996288196
After seeing this post, I made the mistake of mirroring his NZ data on Mega.
Seemed like a bandwidth issue easily solved with a few mirrors. Mega is in NZ and I’ve always had great performance from them. Paying customer since 2016.
Seemed like a bandwidth issue easily solved with a few mirrors. Mega is in NZ and I’ve always had great performance from them. Paying customer since 2016.
I then saw some posts that the data/server was under DDOS and maybe even injunction.
Seemed odd for transformed public health data with no PID.
So I asked Steve if this was true.
No response.
Seemed odd for transformed public health data with no PID.
So I asked Steve if this was true.
No response.
Woke up today to having my entire Mega account deleted.
820Gb of medical genomes that back many projects.
This was very expensive data to generate. $200K+.
The Vax sequencing data was included in this.
All the links in our substacks are blown up now. Consensus is in NCBI.
820Gb of medical genomes that back many projects.
This was very expensive data to generate. $200K+.
The Vax sequencing data was included in this.
All the links in our substacks are blown up now. Consensus is in NCBI.
Steve is aware of this.
Crickets.
At the time of upload there was no injunction. I have never been contacted by anyone.
@MEGAprivacy doesn’t respond even when notified that the account they nuked has data submitted to many court cases and Subpoenas will be on the way.
Crickets.
At the time of upload there was no injunction. I have never been contacted by anyone.
@MEGAprivacy doesn’t respond even when notified that the account they nuked has data submitted to many court cases and Subpoenas will be on the way.
As the record shows, I was willing to comply with an injunction given someone could verify it was true.
Given this behaviour from @MEGAprivacy I highly recommend everyone back up any data they have there and find a provider that isn’t so blunt over posting an excel sheet.
Given this behaviour from @MEGAprivacy I highly recommend everyone back up any data they have there and find a provider that isn’t so blunt over posting an excel sheet.
This is very Orwellian.
You can post data that was described as being transformed data with no personal identifiable information and it can be deemed injunction worthy at a later date and destroy your entire account.
You can post data that was described as being transformed data with no personal identifiable information and it can be deemed injunction worthy at a later date and destroy your entire account.
The NZMH thinks it’s in their jurisdiction to have entire accounts deleted to save a transformed version of their excel sheet that is already all over the world.
This is vindictive and desperate behavior from public health officials who have never heard of the Streisand effect.
This is vindictive and desperate behavior from public health officials who have never heard of the Streisand effect.
We are assessing the damages and given they deleted data related to criminal court proceeding, this should get very interesting.
If you were sane you’d have just the link you thought was in violation removed. I’ve still not been shown evidence of who owns this data. Discovery..
If you were sane you’d have just the link you thought was in violation removed. I’ve still not been shown evidence of who owns this data. Discovery..
May help. I would advise @MEGAprivacy to please restore the account with the offending link removed, otherwise lawyers will be descending on you for what looks like the largest court case in 50 years if not ever.
Happy to port the non offending data elsewhere if you prefer.
Happy to port the non offending data elsewhere if you prefer.
The Mega tag line is ‘Privacy’
Now is your chance to live up to that @MEGAprivacy
Is it privacy if you go thermonuclear on someone’s account without any dialog over the offending data?
What good is an encrypted store if the NZMH can arbitrarily nuke accounts?
Many links down.
Now is your chance to live up to that @MEGAprivacy
Is it privacy if you go thermonuclear on someone’s account without any dialog over the offending data?
What good is an encrypted store if the NZMH can arbitrarily nuke accounts?
Many links down.
Not just a violation.
But a Gross Violation!
But a Gross Violation!
There is pure irony in this.
Private company who puts sequence data public of medicinal plants and fungi to help the world, gets attacked by a public health agency that won’t share the tax payers data
Wrong side of history.
@TamaraUgo @MaryanneDemasi @dystopian_DU @sonia_elijah
Private company who puts sequence data public of medicinal plants and fungi to help the world, gets attacked by a public health agency that won’t share the tax payers data
Wrong side of history.
@TamaraUgo @MaryanneDemasi @dystopian_DU @sonia_elijah
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