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Incentives, law and outside attestation. Google gives you a lot of things for "free". I trust someone who I pay $9/mo to if they promise to not share my photos
by vorpalhex 6y ago
Incentives, law and outside attestation.
Google gives you a lot of things for "free". I trust someone who I pay $9/mo to if they promise to not share my photos. If they share my photos, they'll stop getting my $9/mo.
Legally, the host can include protections for your data including not reselling or sharing your data even in cases of acquisition. If it's in the contract with the host, it's binding both ways.
Third, by allowing audits. There's a cost here and auditors are still human, but they provide outside assurance - especially when their findings are published independently.
- bagacrap 6y agowell I pay Google to host my photos. You must not have many photos if you can fit them all in Google's free tier, but you could always buy extra storage just to make the revenue model clear and all that.
- vorpalhex 6y agoYou're paying google very little for the amount of space you're getting. I assure you, your very cheap cloud storage is being subsidized. [1] [1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/11/21559930/google-train-ai-photos-image-labelling-app-android-update https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/11/21559930/google-train-ai...