What's stopping people from maintaining an additional backup offsite? What if Google's servers explode? There's no perfect solution. Can't say I get it. You'll end up spending more than a couple drives would cost after a year.

Google I'm sure has backups to their backups for their backups lmao. It's more or less for convenience I would say. Truth be told I don't really have a pure backup solution myself right now, I just have a recovery image written maybe every so often? Not the best solution but at the same time I only keep a backup of things that I absolutely need on my computer, and not the whole hard drive itself.

Depending on how many pictures one has acquired + videos etc. you'd have to pay Google a subscription for the amount of GB/TB you would require. I used to have Office 365 which came with 1TB OneDrive for free but I opted for Office 2016 for £10 through work to save money. It'd be far cheaper to buy a 2TB HDD and just copy your folders across of better yet, use CloneZilla to make an image...

A) nobody cares about your data

- Big Data business is like $150 bilion revenue, goverment agencies pays about a quarter. They care so much that they even change the law to get know more about you, from facebook password to sexual preferences, from summer photo to top secret file, from work from daily route to work to everyone who you can meet and speak. A politician, judge, policeman, advocate, director, physician, or hold a important position, or working on a new patent, or target for corruption, or you just know too much or want to know if you are not threat to their interests... You think you are safe because you are nobody, but who know, maybe you will be in wrong place in wrong time or you just know someone who was in wrong place or wrog time and they will use your data against you.. Did they pay you for your data? If not why you sharing them and accept that?

Google I'm sure has backups to their backups for their backups lmao. It's more or less for convenience I would say. Truth be told I don't really have a pure backup solution myself right now, I just have a recovery image written maybe every so often? Not the best solution but at the same time I only keep a backup of things that I absolutely need on my computer, and not the whole hard drive itself.

I'd hope so, that was just the first worst case scenario that popped into my head :P.

All the people concerned about the private data: A) nobody cares about your data B) When they do care about you, they already have all the data in any case regardless of your system (looking at your tinfoil win7 users) C) As long as you don't do anything over the edge, they won't care Yup.

All you are is your data. And the "as long as you don't do anything" excuse is one of the most spineless things our pathetic age has produced.

All the people concerned about the private data: A) nobody cares about your data B) When they do care about you, they already have all the data in any case regardless of your system (looking at your tinfoil win7 users) C) As long as you don't do anything over the edge, they won't care Yup.

You seem to know very lttle about how the world works.

Yes I would like to give Google also my credit card numbers and every information I have on my computer (He*l No)

That's funny that you think they don't already have it.

I dont get the obsession with backup your **** to someone else " drives" it one the stupidest things to be conceived imo. Get HDD and HDD Dock and back up your own stuff, and have peace of mind of know it backed up offline and cant be hacked buy hacker and sold to highest bidder cause it not ONLINE. IMO show how lazy and or stupid people can be. But the whole idea is godsend to hackers and governments that want to get at the public's info.

That's funny that you think they don't already have it.

funny thing is most people believe they dont already among other things, most keep it safe, other companies might sell it other might get hacked and never tell the customers. Nothing is safe in online digital world if someone wants it they will get it, no amount of security will ever stop that. less you arnt online in this digital world, in which case they probably have to come psychical rob you All your phone calls texted are logged and watched same for anything and everything you do online.

Yes I would like to give Google also my credit card numbers and every information I have on my computer (He*l No)

If you keep your credit card numbers stored in plain text on your computer you have bigger worries than Google taking them.

I dont get the obsession with backup your **** to someone else " drives" it one the stupidest things to be conceived imo. Get HDD and HDD Dock and back up your own stuff, and have peace of mind of know it backed up offline and cant be hacked buy hacker and sold to highest bidder cause it not ONLINE. IMO show how lazy and or stupid people can be.

If you have files that are important to you and aren't tech savvy enough to have a RAID1 setup to ensure your files aren't lost to hardware failure, drive storage isn't a terrible option. Personally, I think Google Drive is probably gonna be pretty safe if you keep 2FA enabled, but even if you're concerned your stuff might get taken by hackers and don't want to upload sensitive documents, you probably don't care a ton if someone gets access your old family photos or videos and it's perfectly functional for that.

Unless there is a financial benefit to doing something, Google will not do it. What and where their angle is, I do not particularly care - I just acknowledge the fact they are making money from me should I do it. Just throwing this out there: if you use google as a search engine, you are giving them roughly 500 dollars a year...

Even if they offer encrypted backups to 'reassure' the wary, you can almost bet your life they have a backdoor to un-encrypt it!

Even if they offer encrypted backups to 'reassure' the wary, you can almost bet your life they have a backdoor to un-encrypt it!

You do not need backdoors in encryption, you write password in their software, it is easy to send password with data, even if it not send then windows sends password, because it keylogg and send all keystrokes...

Which probably breaks most data protection laws regarding privacy no doubt, i'm sure privacy advocates would love to jump all over Google if they actually do that, unless it's written into the EULA/TOS and you stupidly agree!

Microsoft have it written into EULA, btw if any corporation working with goverment agencies and selling data it can not expose, there are some "anti-terroristic" legislations...