> > Google Drive: *They own your data*: > This is really scary. Was someone talking about this a couple of months ago and pointed out that Microsoft SkyDrive has a similar policy? Is this a violation of International Safe Harbor Privacy Principles: US and EU rules about protection of personal data? Or are these vendors/facilities immune to this?
All non-trivial files I put in Rackspace or SkyDrive are zipped with strong encryption. I am unable to do the same with my Gmail contents as I presume it's all stored in plaintext somewhere and they can search and index it. I hope they don't "use, publish, distribute, etc" our emails. Greg K
