You Can't Control Your Data in the Cloud (opens in new tab)

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11 pointsURfejk4y ago5 comments

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> No matter, how secure your cloud vendor is storing your data, you are going to lose control. Same holds true for the European cloud.

Not fully truth. You can ask for the complete deletion via EU GDPR.

About the other concepts, yes it’s true but it’s the price to pay for the convenience of having the data stored by the hardware/software of someone else.

You can always buy your home storage device, configure it, expose it online, maintenance it, etc…

djbebs4y ago

Do you truly believe that it will be deleted if inconvenient to do so? If the state mandates retention?

Physical access is root access.

For anything remotely sensitive cloud is simply a non-starter.

giuliomagnifico4y ago

It should be deleted, I can’t speak for a non legal behavior of the companies, but legally they must do it, if asked. Anyway I won’t put sensitive info on remote cloud owned by xyz. I was speaking for normal cloud content, like photos or simply documents.

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truffdog4y ago

My favorite analogy here is the old sex education trope- "wear a condom or you are exposed to all of the STDs of all of your partner's partners". Only in the cloud, the arrow of time is reversed. Everything you share you have to trust the company to steward, and not just the company as currently constituted, but all future versions, ownerships, partners and employees of the company.

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