> A "private cloud" doesn't help if congress decides that comcast should also be allowed to MITM your SSL connection to scan every image you donwload. It also

> A "private cloud" doesn't help if congress decides that comcast should also be allowed to MITM your SSL connection to scan every image you donwload. It also doesn't help if you send the image in an email to a third party that doesn't share encryption keys with you. Which is going to be the case for situations like the one described in this article unless your "private cloud" expands to include all your health care providers--not to mention your bank, your insurance company, etc., etc. Which of course it won't; all of those third parties are not going to care what your private cloud setup is; they're going to use whatever all the other large companies use.