Cloud storage

terra_ferma

An interesting article from the Independent about cloud storage, and how safe/private information is.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/british-internet-users-personal-information-on-major-cloud-storage-services-can-be-spied-upon-routinely-by-us-authorities-8471819.html

I expect this will make US visa applications quick, they'll just have to take a look at your NHS, tax and police records...

Lucero_2

Sadly, this isn't new information.

Basically, if your cloud storage provider is not in the UK (and by that, I mean, data held in UK Datacentre), then your data is not protected by UKDP law.

If you have a UK Cloud provider who stores in the US, then you are not protected. That includes some of the major ones, ie:

Apple
Dropbox
SkyDrive

It's pretty simple really.

terra_ferma

Lucero wrote: »

Sadly, this isn't new information.

Basically, if your cloud storage provider is not in the UK (and by that, I mean, data held in UK Datacentre), then your data is not protected by UKDP law.

If you have a UK Cloud provider who stores in the US, then you are not protected. That includes some of the major ones, ie:

Apple
Dropbox
SkyDrive

It's pretty simple really.

It goes further than that, many people are not aware the US government have easy access to any data stored in the 'clouds'. One thing is knowing theoretically that it may happen, another is to have it spelled out, particularly when we are talking about government information, such as NHS, police, HMRC etc.
Also people who buy the new google Chromebook laptops for example, would make all their activity and data easily accessible.

S0litaire

That's why I use "SpiderOak" everything encrypted on your machine before being sent to "The Cloud". Only you can see the contents of your Cloud Storage.

It's a lot easier than messing around with something like TrueCrypt and DropBox

terra_ferma

S0litaire wrote: »

That's why I use "SpiderOak" everything encrypted on your machine before being sent to "The Cloud". Only you can see the contents of your Cloud Storage.

It's a lot easier than messing around with something like TrueCrypt and DropBox

I'm concerned about the fact that one can't encrypt the data held about them, rather than by them, which other people control, e,g, the government