> You put your files in the landlord's building because you're leasing the apartment from them. You put your data on the provider's servers The comparison betw

> You put your files in the landlord's building because you're leasing the apartment from them. You put your data on the provider's servers The comparison between the physical and digital is not 1 to 1. You are putting copies of your files(data) into a digital server that you do not have possession of. You have possession of your apartment and there are laws that apply to that world that in no way apply to copies of files you gave (gave being the key word) to the server that you do not have possession of. Unless the company (company being the problem) specifically sets up terms, usually in a very expensive enterprise contract -- with legal cutouts for law things judges may do -- which promises what you give to their servers will function more like the rental apt you are trying to tie together -- you are simply giving them data. point. blank. simple. Even then they could renege and then you deal with it or go through long legal process to sue. The ship for data privacy has already long sailed by the time you come at a judge that told them not to destroy it. People agree to it so companies get away with being allowed to use the copies of data you give them however they want. Thats why it's different. People(society that made the laws) don't accept that behaviour from landlords. They shouldn't from the online world either but here we are. I have no other way of helping this click for you, and at this point it's just moving the same words around to try and find the right sequence that will. Good luck, take care.