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This rhetoric is getting really old. If you want to store things that you would consider sensitive, dropbox, google drive, amazon, imgur, facebook, or whatever

• hackinthebochs 14y ago
  >If you want to store things that you would consider sensitive, dropbox, google drive, amazon, imgur, facebook, or whatever else are not the place to do it, and you shouldn't be expecting any different. This is true, but it shouldn't be. Ambiguous TOS's aren't helping matters. This is even more important now that companies like Google are trying to encourage people to trust their livelihoods to the cloud. They absolutely need to be as clear as possible, for their own sakes. It's odd that they allow themselves to be in a situation where their motives are questioned precisely when they're trying to get the masses comfortable with storing their lives in the cloud.
• misterbwong 14y ago
  This should be obvious It should be, but it isn't. To techies, yes. We understand that Google/Dropbox/iCloud/CloudDriveX(tm) can and probably will use information accessed through these services. To others, though, it's just like saying some company can "read your hard drive and look at your stuff" which is unexpected and unsettling. Normal users expect their files to be just that-their files. Whether this is an invasion of privacy or just the new normal is up for debate.