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I would add a third risk of an account ban by some type of future automated copyright content ID. Especially if it is silent/without warning.
by brador 8y ago
I would add a third risk of an account ban by some type of future automated copyright content ID. Especially if it is silent/without warning.
- stefan_ 8y agoForget account ban, there is a nonzero risk a false positive of the automated kiddie porn search all the cloud storage providers do has your home searched and puts you in handcuffs.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoSurely the far greater risk is one other person using the service does something the feds don't like (justified or otherwise) and they take every server that person's file fragments have touched.
- e12e 8y agoWhile I'm sceptical of content filters, even with a home search, it seems unlikely you'd end up in cuffs unless a) the filter caught acymtual illegal content, or b) the search turned up something illegal. You might get killed in the course of the initial police raid though..
- stefan_ 8y agoWell you take a picture of your kid in the bathtub, now who can tell the difference?
- e12e 8y agoIf pictures of naked kids is illegal in your jurisdiction, you've got bigger problems. I guess that's true for some locations, though. Still, nude people =! pornography. (kids below age of consent sexting each other is another, related, problem)
- the8472 8y agoThat's one of the reasons to encrypt locally and only store encrypted data on backup services.
- e12e 8y agoIf Google suspends your account for background music playing in a YouTube video, you might still lose access to your files in Google drive / cloud - even if the files are encrypted.
- the8472 8y agoYou should compartmentalize those.
- kalleboo 8y agoThat can be difficult to maintain though, as Google is pretty eager to link accounts. You have horror stories like https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/8kvias/tifu_by_getting_google_to_ban_our_entire_company/ https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/8kvias/tifu_by_gettin... > Eventually someone realized that their non-work accounts were banned as well. It wasn't until yesterday that someone made the connection. Anyone who had their accounts as a recovery option were also caught in the ban wave.
- earenndil 8y agoI'm pretty sure that was found to fake, no?
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- e12e 8y agoI did. I had a YouTube account. And a Google account. Then Google bought YouTube. (this isn't quite true in my case, but Google did go to some lebghts to merge yt accounts into Google accounts recently).
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoHow about USA government instruct the owners to cease access or take ownership like with Kim Dotcom's New Zealand (?) based storage company. I don't recall hearing about anyone recovering access to their data in that case? This makes every additional user an increase in risk, as even without a warrant it seems if USA TLAs consider someone a valid target then those servers are going down (or getting taken over by people with unknown service standards in order to run a sting, or ...). tl;dr you have to worry about accusations (of law breaking or copyright infringement) against others too as some jurisdictions have a strong overreach in such cases.