What Happens When a #Romance #Writer Gets Locked Out of #Google Docs
In March, an aspiring author got a troubling message: All of her works in progress were no longer accessible. What happened next is every writer’s worst fear.
Google never specified which of her 222,000 words was inappropriate.
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Generally speaking, files containing #violence, #abuse, child sexual abuse material, and gore violate the terms of service for Google Drive and its associated products, like Docs and Sheets.
Now many of you will be thinking, who is stupid enough to store everything in the Google #cloud? The problem is we know that, but many people out there don't. We urgently need to do more educational work and warn people about companies like Google and their practices. Tell all your friends and acquaintances and don't use the clouds of the big corporations.
#news #problem #fail #warning #danger #service #customer #internet #economy #security #wtf #omg #disaster
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in reply to anonymiss • • •It also goes to show that they scan and investigate everything you upload into the cloud. The cloud is not a private storage even though you might think only you have access to the material. Potentially, if they wanted, they can copy or steal all your work and you would not even know it.
Maybe we should learn people how to create a very easy private and personal cloud storage with a Raspberry Pi at home, accessible from all your mobile devices. Making it your own secure HDD that no companies or other people can spy on.
And if worried about the Raspberry Pi being destroyed do to house fire, flood, asteroid impact or burglary, well, make two raspberry pi devices and keep the other off-site at a trusted friend and set it up to daily do backups of the first Pi.