Another Dark Cloud 3
January 7th, 2010 by ComputerBob
Regular readers of this Journal know that I’ve never had much good to say about “cloud computing.” In fact, I’ve always expressed serious concerns about how computer users seem to be eager to trade their private data’s security, access, privacy and control for a little convenience.
So I keep all of my private data right here on my PC, as well as backed up onto my own additional hard drives.
Although you may get the impression from other blogs that only a tiny minority agrees with me, I hope that others will join me in taking a long, skeptical look at the real costs of cloud computing.
That’s why I was very encouraged to read that “The Federal Trade Commission worries that consumers don’t really understand the privacy implications to storing some of their most crucial data in the cloud, and it wants the FCC to think about such issues when finalizing its national broadband plan.”
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