I think that "the cloud" should not be considered to be a safe long-term storage. It can be used as redundancy backup, but if you really need to keep your data,

I think that "the cloud" should not be considered to be a safe long-term storage. It can be used as redundancy backup, but if you really need to keep your data, you should take care of that yourself. This is not a technical issue, but an ownership issue. Google is mostly an ad company and as such they don't really treat you as users but as a product.