Now, with everything in the cloud, the decision whether to hand over my personal information is almost entirely out of my hands.
Um, no. When you store your data "in the cloud" (in a non-encrypted format), you have just made the decision to hand over your data to everybody with access to that data. That is everybody from TLA governmental entities that can subpoena "the cloud" owners to the janitor that empties the wastebaskets in the computer room.
Um, no. When you store your data "in the cloud" (in a non-encrypted format), you have just made the decision to hand over your data to everybody with access to that data. That is everybody from TLA governmental entities that can subpoena "the cloud" owners to the janitor that empties the wastebaskets in the computer room.