Throw your hard drive away, Google's Gdrive arriving in 2009

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Soleron said:

richardhutnik said:
Why not encrypt and compress your backup data and use a service like this as a way to provide cheap off-site data storage for personal use? Encrypt and compress prevents anyone from understanding your data, and it provides a way to make sure you are able to back up information off your laptop or PC, in event your harddrive crashes, or there is a fire, or whatever.

That's a good idea. However, the whole reason the service is free is so they can data-mine as many customers as possible. If encryption becomes widespread, they may start charging for it.

 

More likely, only a few people use encryption and almost everyone gives away their private data to google, potentially resulting in some embarassing situations. Obviously google wants to sell derivatives of your information to 3rd parties, whether they be your interests, work patterns or similar.