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personal is okay but not sensitive information.
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The problem is not to store or not (or even if the companies will keep the data safe), but instead when you make a recomendation to people they take you "responsible", even if they did something stupid like respond a e-mail asking for user and password, or even payed a bill from a fake notification saying that they are due without checking anything or even having an account there.
Since people do those kind of things (from the most humble people to arrogant ones) it's better to NOT RECOMEND anything - if it's something that they are obligated to do they'll do anyway, if not, is best if they decide for themselves.
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Anyone that is so concerned that their private data may be stolen (this includes me) can simply encrypt the data before uploading. This is a programming site, if your backup tool does not encrypt, then make your own one.
Storing data online is a necessity these days, not just an option.
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Agree and disagree ... see my post above
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This is my cloud. And they are size of a credit card
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And what if your employer doesn't allow you to plug it into their computer?
What about backup? It's necessary but major hustle...
What about remembering to constantly plug and unplug?
What if you forget to bring it with you?
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Since prints are rarely ever made anymore.
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Yup. I swear I'm the only one in this city that prints them at this point. I now ps them to maximize the 8x11.5 high gloss I have standing by for the (seemingly rare) "great shot" to send to the Family. May as well have the parents pup in the cloud, at least it looks less gray! 
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Yeah but do you allow the family to identify you in the photo's. My foil hat nearly had a melt down when my daughter started identifying me in her facebook posts, I store them in online folders but not in places where they want you to identify everyone in the image.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Most of our personal info is already out in the cloud, hopefully in encrypted form, but it's out there.
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With all of the data breaches, security issues from IoT and other shenanigans, I keep anything remotely sensitive on local systems only. My mom keeps her stuff on a computer that's NEVER connected to the Internet.
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Does your mom have that sensitive information stored?
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Normals (Family and friends) now want to put their data in the hands of someone they never knew or will ever know cause it's cool to do so.
This is ridiculous.
USB drives have never been so cheap and all the backup they will ever need is built right into osx and windows.
To pay someone to hold your baby pictures for you is good money after bad.
I don't even use a cloud based repository for code. Because I trust nobody with IP.
I use svn on my own server box in my office, and I back it up nightly and take the drives off site.
My bug tracker is on that same box too.
At home I use a windows 7 box in the basement with gobs of storage attached.
Yes it takes effort. But your data is priceless. Th boxes can be replaced.
The cloud was created because there is no money to be made in retail PCs anymore and groups like MS and IBM have to make their money somehow. May as well be by coning mom.
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Quote: At home I use a windows 7 box in the basement with gobs of storage attached.
Ditto. Except I have a machine running Server 2008 as primary backup - and an additional Windows 7 machine as a backup backup.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Ron Anders wrote: Yes it takes effort
That's precisely the appeal FOR using the cloud for most people. The cloud is much easier for most people to use than it is for them to buy their own drive and ever figure out what to do with it.
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Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Top rated vendor
and... Only store personal info that you are willing to be compromised.
-- Yes, if they use a major cloud vendor
-- if they pick and choose carefully what they store online
modified 24-Sep-18 9:59am.
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Whether I like them or not!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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For non-personal information absolutely. For personal information absolutely not. Too many breaches of internet security for me to recommend putting personal information on the cloud. But then again how many people use cloud based password managers which if cracked would reveal all of a persons passwords.
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But the question was would I recommend it!
Never! Not my area of expertise and there are enough bulls*****rs out there without me adding to the population.
Happy to help family and friends evaluate advice they've been given from "experts" but they're essentially on their own with things like this
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As with most things, it depends. Storing your holiday photos online is one thing, but storing your credit card details is another. So there is no black and white answer. It really just depends.
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Paranoia is not the way to go.
Today it is almost impossible to anything in the internet without sharing at least a bit of your data. You have no control anyway. So if you decide to use it, use it right.
If all the big cloud providers (google, ms, ...) were so totally untrustworthy, there wouldn't be the business clouds and all that decentralized architectures around.
Basically it's your choice: Do you trust your provider or not?
But this question is in no way different from the question "do I trust my car mechanic?" or "do I trust the airline when I enter their plane?"
Everything you do has a risk attached. Be it your life when you enter an airplane, be it your (digital) life when you put your data in the cloud with the benefit of "no backups anymore! yay!" and all the comfort to have your data at hand everytime, everywhere.
Honestly... Put your data on G-Drive but don't blame anybody but yourself if you don't establish at least 2-factor-auth and/or other security measures like backup-(offline)-codes and the like.
If your google account has the password 123456GOD and no 2FA, no backup codes and if you don't want to enter your phone number and an alternative email-address... if you don't want to log in to chrome to use the device finder and all that stuff... WHY would want to use the cloud then?
You can't use the cloud without actually CONNECTING to it.
Use it full or don't use it at all.
Trust your provider or not.
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Apple and the "stars nude" hacks alone should have them worried. Equifax? Oh dear.
Lets face it: security on the cloud is cr@p. Probably because it's "flavour of the month" and everybody is still jumping on the bandwagon to make as much as possible as fast as they can - and security isn't important in that aim.
Use the cloud as a backup for your data yes - it's better than no backup at all, just - but don't expect it to be safe, secure or private. And fer gawds sake, don't store personal information there!
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