Not many people pay attention to the privacy that we are giving up for the services that we are using which are actually really useful tools and helps us greatly in performing our work efficiently in our daily lives.
Now authorities say that they need access to the data to stop threats before they take place, but are there really much threats than scary things the government does behind our backs like the September 11 attacks, attack on Iraq when there were no weapons of mass destruction actually present? Just go to YouTube and search for conspiracies or details of those events, and you'll find damning evidence on the contrary of what the media in general shows us.
I don't watch news from these big media news houses nowadays because they show views of politicians and businesses who pay or coerce them into broadcasting favourable news.
Now back to the point , if you are in a country where all the services are available but they are all monitored and you need to organize a peaceful protest in multiple places and need to organize something through online means to protest against them then don't you wish you had the option to be able to communicate securely without being watched?
Funny thing is the US gov isn't just spying on terrorist elements they are even spying on foreign commercial enterprises!?! What's the need for that?
We need to slowly but surely move over our data and services used, to services that can assure that they can't in any way access our stuff, even if its at rest in their servers. All biggies say that all transmission is secure, even between their servers, but what about when the data is in their server? They would say it's possible but really hard. No, why do you want to access it!
Only problem is that all those services cost money and they need to monetize it by serving up ads that are relevant. The only way that they'll know what's relevant is by going through our e-mails and documents to find out what words are frequent and accordingly use it to decide what ads to show.
I came across a service where one needs to install a client in their system and if possible allocate some space to it which would be used by the client to store some data of its own, and then in return it'll provide you with some space in its distributed cloud, half of what you provided to the client plus its standard offering.
In this service, the space provided by the users of the service is used to store the data of those users by splitting the data you want to store in the cloud into many small pieces, add error correcting code, encrypt it and then send it to 96 different locations. This is a really redundant way of storing data in a secure way.
It does require you to have an unlimited usage plan with a good enough connection bandwidth.
