<story><title>Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strangers in November</title><url>https://ww.9to5google.com/2020/02/03/google-photos-video-strangers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Everybody makes mistakes and nothing in the world is black and white.&lt;p&gt;The only question is, is your cloud provider less likely to make mistakes with your data than you are?&lt;p&gt;For most people, the answer is going to be orders of magnitude less likely.</text></item><item><author>brenden2</author><text>The usual argument for using &amp;quot;cloud&amp;quot; over managing your own files&amp;#x2F;data is that it&amp;#x27;s very hard to safely manage your own data without making mistakes (data loss, etc). However, this is an example of how companies like Google also make mistakes. Furthermore, when Google&amp;#x2F;FB makes a mistake (like leaking your private data) they do it at a global scale.&lt;p&gt;I offboarded myself from all of Google&amp;#x27;s services a while ago, but I also think &amp;quot;cloud&amp;quot; is dead, at least in the cases where the cloud service holds the encryption keys on my behalf. I don&amp;#x27;t trust, and never will trust, any company to hold on to my data without either selling it to a third party or accidentally leaking it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmcd</author><text>The other question is, what is your cloud provider going to intentionally do with your data without your consent.</text></comment>
<story><title>Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strangers in November</title><url>https://ww.9to5google.com/2020/02/03/google-photos-video-strangers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Everybody makes mistakes and nothing in the world is black and white.&lt;p&gt;The only question is, is your cloud provider less likely to make mistakes with your data than you are?&lt;p&gt;For most people, the answer is going to be orders of magnitude less likely.</text></item><item><author>brenden2</author><text>The usual argument for using &amp;quot;cloud&amp;quot; over managing your own files&amp;#x2F;data is that it&amp;#x27;s very hard to safely manage your own data without making mistakes (data loss, etc). However, this is an example of how companies like Google also make mistakes. Furthermore, when Google&amp;#x2F;FB makes a mistake (like leaking your private data) they do it at a global scale.&lt;p&gt;I offboarded myself from all of Google&amp;#x27;s services a while ago, but I also think &amp;quot;cloud&amp;quot; is dead, at least in the cases where the cloud service holds the encryption keys on my behalf. I don&amp;#x27;t trust, and never will trust, any company to hold on to my data without either selling it to a third party or accidentally leaking it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kaiyou</author><text>Just encrypt your data before putting it onto somebody else&amp;#x27;s computer a.k.a. the cloud.</text></comment>