In 2012, Google alone received 21,389 government requests for information affecting 33,634 user accounts.
While online data storage services claim your data is encrypted, there are no guarantees. With recent revelations that the federal government taps into the files of Internet search engines, email and cloud service providers, any myth about data "privacy" on the Internet has been busted.
Experts say there's simply no way to ever be completely sure your data will remain secure once you've moved it to the cloud."You have no way of knowing. You can't trust anybody. Everybody is lying to you," said security expert Bruce Schneier. "How do you know which platform to trust? They could even be lying because the U.S. government has forced them to."
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Cloud technology is supposedly developed that people would store all their data online (how nice - free operating system,no more software updates, free spyware and malware protection, etc) and in the near future computers will be sold without any internal harddrives what so ever.
In case you will become nuisance to them, they will just block your access to cloud and you will lose everything. Of course that would make snooping even more convenient, they dont need even to hack into your computers anymore.
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