The Cloud

All your digital photographs and documents can now be stored in ‘the cloud’, a friendly, fluffy nimbus of personal information that hovers overhead wherever you are. But ‘the cloud’ is actually physical infrastructure owned by a few large corporations, and what you put in it can be scrutinized by government agencies, or accidentally erased. The cloud is where your data goes when it ceases to be yours.

US politicians propose a bill to limit government snooping on data in ‘the cloud’

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