Cloud storage

[Polchraine]

You effectively give up all rights to the information that you store there. What is to stop the service providers exploiting your data for their use?

If you delete it, does it get deleted? For example you may have a set of images which you decide you do not want to keep, or are instructed to destroy. There are no guarantees that they will do so. Recently an ISP migrated their customers mail from Google servers to another provider - and when the users changed their details and downloaded their mail from the new servers they were inundated with thousands of messages, some many years old that they had previously deleted.

I would suggest investing in a couple of USB drives and storing a copy and backup on those. Get a couple of large USB pen drives that you can take with you if you want images available.

Just DO NOT TRUST the cloud providers.

[dromia]

Concur and I apply that to all things computer or telephone related, if I have something that I would worry about other people having access to then I wouldn't have it on computer or phone.