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1) its not your data if it is not on equipment you own 2) this is the cost of free services

• malwarebytess 5y ago
  And both of these things are wrong and should be changed. We don't need to be beholden to the disastrous third-party legal doctrine.
  • tomohawk 5y ago
    Just because they're wrong and should be changed doesn't mean that they are not true now. If you don't like it, then these are the fundamental things that need to be reconsidered.
    • bigiain 5y ago
      It _can_ be "not true" with a little effort. I have encrypted files stored on Dropbox, S3, GoogleDrive, and cloud hosted virtual servers. That is 100% "my data" (only the GoogleDrive is a free service, but the technique applies anyway. (I do agree with malwarebytess about the absurdity of the third-party legal doctrine applying to 21st century use cases like cell phone backups and cloud email and GPS location data from whatever random apps people have installed - stuff which was unimaginable when they gutted the 4th amendment in 1976...)