The way I understand it, only information of users in China are going to be stored on Chinese servers - not from other countries. And personal opinion is, that the data on servers in the US are not that much safer.
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 28, 2018, at 18:13, David Cripps <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 01/03/2018 10:27, Henk wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> Without wanting to alarm unnecessary but born out of cluelessness >> about the Cloud or iCloud, I do want to put this question on the >> Legacy table: With the latest news about Apple moving it’s China >> iCloud accounts to China government ran servers, what are the overall >> guarantees that our Legacy Cloud data is safe and stays private? >> >> >> > A very good question Henk, and I'll keep an eye on the replies. > > I'm tempted to say that most of us have information that wouldn't be the > remotest bit interesting to anyone outside of our own families, but then > of course I started thinking about all those events that I've marked > "Private," and that yes I suppose I have several things I'd like to > remain private. > I'm not paranoid, but I believe if you want true privacy, then only > User based encryption software will do it for you, and no I don't use or > need such a feature. Having said that, quite some years ago I did ask > the legacy folks if it might be possible to have encryption available > for some Events, rather than relying on the tick to make it private, or > the Open and closed [ ] brackets; My argument then was that people can > still open the file and read the contents. > > I've not used the Legacy Cloud feature, favouring instead to use my own > Google Drive backup routine that has been working well for several > years, so I'm content to combine that with a couple of other backups and > settle with that. > > Then of course if a foreign government wanted your information and had > the resources to tackle that task, what could we as average folks > actually do about it ? > > Cheers > Dave Cripps > > -- > David Cripps | [email protected] > Hobart, Tasmania > > > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > [email protected] > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
