Perhaps one should encrypt files before uploading to cloud services. Sure it destroys the possibility of webview for your data, but then you don't have to worry about situations like this.
Google Drive may restrict files identified as violating ToS
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's slightly more, but this is why I have stuck with Dropbox. Their only business is storage and it means they are less likely to do things like this. They have't been in the news, that I have seen, about actions like this. Google is a consumer hostile company at this point. Unless you have a friend with pull there, or make it a big enough news issue, the little things are treated with automated hostility. Google is…
Dropbox has the exact same policies and procedures, they just don't have the same technical abilities that Google has. Quoting from their AUP: "...you must not even try to do any of the following ...: ... - publish, share, or store materials that constitute child sexually exploitative material (including material which may not be illegal child sexual abuse material but which nonetheless sexually exploits or promotes…
The point is really, that these companies are so large that they should be much more regulated and treated like any utility. That means it is a legal proceeding when they want to drop customers. This many mean that people, gulp, pay for services, but they have chosen to intertwine themselves into too many places in the consumer landscape.
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#103I never thought I'd consider going back to MS Office or Libre Office... but the thought that my Google Account and all of my files are at risk by a company that has well known poor customer support is very scary.
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#104This is deeply disturbing news. It is already a problem that people get their Google accounts closed without any explanation from Google and with no response from Google when they try to contact them. A story about Elin Killie Martinsen, a Norwegian journalist and writer who lost access to her book manuscripts this way, was recently run in the national newspaper Aftenposten ( https://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/i/8Qj1l…
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
That does not answer legality.
However, VeVo can say that no one can keep MP3 records if it isn't hosted on iTunes, YouTube Music or Spotify etc
In my country that would be almost certainly illegal. Not even copyright holders can tell you what you can do with your personal copies of copyrighted works, short of distributing them to someone else. By law they're explicitly prevented from doing that.
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#106We need “dumb” infrastructure again, that you can simply pay for with few strings attached, where the provider cannot fiddle with things at all, leaving enforcement to other authorities.
We build roads; yes, those roads might be used to transport stolen goods but the road builder doesn’t get to sit there and inspect every vehicle (and accuse the wrong people sometimes and ban them from driving).
It’s just so damned complicated now and I don’t know how it got that way.
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#107Perhaps one should encrypt files before uploading to cloud services. Sure it destroys the possibility of webview for your data, but then you don't have to worry about situations like this.
Unless they decide that encrypted files violate their TOS.
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#108Which means:
- google reads all your files
- google judges your files
- google has a set of opaque, arbitrary, ever changing list of things that can turn your files into a reason for locking you out
So, basically: s/your files/their files
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, but aren't the abusers now going to do exactly that?
Perhaps it may surprise you to learn that many "bad actors" are rather stupid. This is one of the few large advantages that defense has over offense in security matters.
You could try to express yourself in less condescending ways, it should have a positive outcome, on average, in interactions with people
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#110When google said they were no longer giving way free storage I bought the cheapest 100GB google one plan for $20/yr. Last night I saw the renewal email and cancelled it. After nearly 10 years of Google usage including drive, email, and pictures (I rarely take videos) I have only ~30GB. Almost 15GB of that is in drive which is a simple "my docks" kind of backup and dumping ground. I'm moving my drive stuff to a cheap VPS running OpenBSD. Then I'm going to remove all photos and video from 2-3+ years ago. Then I'll just use the free plan for photos and email for the time being. My VPS will do the rest.