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British internet users' personal information on major 'cloud' storage services can be spied upon routinely by US authorities
All documents uploaded onto cloud systems based in the US or falling under Washington’s jurisdiction can be accessed and analysed without a warrant by American security agencies.
http://www.independent.co...-authorities-8471819.html
All documents uploaded onto cloud systems based in the US or falling under Washington’s jurisdiction can be accessed and analysed without a warrant by American security agencies.
http://www.independent.co...-authorities-8471819.html
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Anyone who posts personal information on the internet deserves what they get.
just encrypt the data before you send it to the cloud, simple really.
I am going to do what cnbcwatcher suggests and keep them at home on an external drive.
If they fancy making sense of my tangled family tree data for me that would come in quite handy.
If you use the amazon store for books or music, then it can't be avoided. Then there's all the things people agree to without realising eg apple product data stored remotely or bookmarks.
None of those things need any remote storage
You need to delete the files from the provider, not just the software on your PC.
And online storage is fine, as mentioned if you have anything sensitive then encrypt it. Nobody is decrypting random stuff on mass, it takes too much computing power even for the authorities.
And you should be using online storage along side some sort of removable storage.
Go to your cloud storage website, and delete the cloud files & folders from there.
Thanks
But are people really bothered about that? should I get my tin hat?
I use iCloud and I'm not bothered that my photo stream or browser tabs could be 'hacked' into by an Apple employee or that the CIA may want to hack me randomly. I have nothing to hide and nothing of interest to the authorities.
https://www.boxcryptor.com/
I'll get my tin hat then
Free: 7Zip, Axcrypt, TrueCrypt
Paid: WinZip
I don't have a kindle but my missus does and her books are stored on her kindle. There is no online storage and if there was she would delete it, as would I.
Why would anyone store music in a place where you can't play them without an internet connection
I have never purchased digital music I buy physicals only.
The only reason to ever have an non anonymous online presence is when you want to sell something.
I think you misunderstand how Kindle works. How does Amazon know which books you have bought if that information is not stored remotely? You can delete local copies of books you have bought and redownload them to any number of your devices.
Also, how can you sync books you have on more than one device unless the information on how far you have read is not stored remotely?
I have a Kindle and the Kindle app on two tablets (Nexus 7 and Xoom) and my phone. If I am reading a book in bed one evening on my Kindle, I can pick up where I left off on my phone the next day if I'm out and have to kill some time.
If you use Calibre to sideload books (or just use drag and drop) then books downloaded from sites other that Amazon would not appear in the cloud, maybe BrokenArrow has done this so he is actually quite correct in his statement.
I got a couple of speadsheets on drop box and they are Encrypted, the only reason I got them on drop box is because it is easier to sync between the main computer and my laptop. Saying that if I can find some software to sync it from the NAS, I may do that instead.
I have said before that using cloud based services is not a great idea.
Simple thing with amazon is as soon as you downloaded your music, just delete the file from their cloud service. I only got three MP3s from Amazon, I prefer to buy Cds and I have erased all three from their system. i have no idea about their ebooks as I use a Kobo and not a kindle, so never buy books from amazon.
May also stop buying CDs from amazon as well, I hear they are going rip the music from them and stick it on their cloud.
Saying that most of the stuff I buy is old.