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...which is what floors me when Google made this statement. I thought the whole benefit of their Google drive system was deduplication of common files to minimize storage space costs. If they start tinkering with private files then people have no choice but to encrypt everything. This will cause their storage requirement to explode. However, if the goal is only to prevent public sharing of content in contravention of…
How many people have the wherewithal to encrypt their content? Even if some have the technical capability, how many are willing to take the reduced quality of life required for what is probably a low probability risk?
You can use something like Syncdocs https://syncdocs.com which supports encryption/decryption on the fly to Google Drive