You are right, and I think that his argument about increased offline privacy is completely valid. But what I meant in my initial comment, is that now if I start

You are right, and I think that his argument about increased offline privacy is completely valid. But what I meant in my initial comment, is that now if I start a new personal document on Google Docs, or if I upload an existing .doc file into Dropbox, I have no control over who, when and for what purpose will access it without my explicit permission. It doesn't necessarily have to be a government agency, whose requests for data don't even require judge's approval in the US[1]. It can even be a machine learning algorithm building a profile on me. [1] https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-orders-google-customer-data-fbi-030845621.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-orders-google-customer-data...