I had thought that in trying to get out of the cloud I was behaving in an oddball and perhaps even Luddite manner, bucking the apparently rising trendiness of c

I had thought that in trying to get out of the cloud I was behaving in an oddball and perhaps even Luddite manner, bucking the apparently rising trendiness of cloud based services. But it's interesting to see that other people are having similar thoughts about reclaiming ownership of their data. One possible solution might be encryption in the cloud, so that data is encrypted and decrypted by the client. Provided that the encryption was strong enough there would be no technical way that service providers could hand over data, although they certainly could still hand over access logs for traffic analysis and I think this is what's being asked for in the Twitter case.