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Google Drive could soon start locking your files

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Re: Google Drive could soon start locking your files

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Post by _rend »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #25
aledalgrande wrote: post #22

Aside from legitimate DMCAs what I'm worried about is losing backupped files of any sort because some rogue individual files a complaint on stuff they don't own or because of an ML error and an inexistent customer service by Google. Also I don't really like the service to sneak onto any files I upload. What alternatives do we have for cloud file backup? I already do full backups, need something to sync files between…

SyncThing, Dropbox

Would also highly recommend Tresorit for a similar E2EE service. (Not affiliated, just a happy customer)

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Post by deathanatos »

ThinkBeat wrote: post #26

How is this done? Google claims files are encrypted at rest and encrypted during transfer. Metadata inspection? Checksum during upload?

They just read the file.

You seem to be under the impression that either of those imply end-to-end encryption, which they don't. (And in Drive's case, AFAIK, E2EE is not an offered nor advertised feature.) The data was encrypted during transmission to Google's servers, sure, but it was encrypted to them; similarly, yeah, they store it encrypted … and they have the key.

(This isn't atypical either, sadly. E2EE is the exception…)

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Post by forgingahead »

29083011397778 wrote: post #24
Workaccount2 wrote: post #12

I have, uh, mp3 backups of all the music I have owned from my, um, ludicrously massive CD collection. Is it worth the risk that google might one day decide I am a pirate and block my account?

For reference, I use FLAC instead of MP3. Your collection may be larger, but my ~12,000 FLAC files take less than 500GB. So I'd say it's a question of value: You could have redundant copies of your music for ~$300 CAD with a pair of Samsung T5 SSDs, or you could someday lose every email, contact, photo, document, Youtube playlist, and MP3 you use Google for. I'm not saying it's likely, but it only has to be a one-in-…

How redundant are SSDs actually? I've been doing offline backups, but the OCD kicks in and I start wondering how many I should actually have and how often I should replace them...

Re: Google Drive could soon start locking your files

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Post by pedro2 »

fknorangesite wrote: post #30
pedro2 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

delete the file? not unshare it and keep it on the personal storage?

fwiw the article says > These files will be flagged to their owner and restricted automatically, which means they can no longer be shared with other people, and access will be withdrawn from everyone but the owner.

all articles always say that but non-verifiable comments around the internet say the file is removed from everywhere.

I'm trying to confirm this comment:

> They removed it after they began using GIFCT to ‘prevent terrorists and violent extremists from exploiting digital platforms.’ All hashed versions of that video was removed from user accounts.

> Page 16 : https://www.oecd.org/officialdocuments/publicdisplaydocument...

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