I often wonder how much we can trust cloud providers. We know that Google reads our email: "
- Google may transfer, store and process Customer Data in the United States or any other country in which Google or its agents maintain facilities. By using the Services, Customer consents to this transfer, processing and storage of Customer Data."
as well as looking for copyright data in Google Drive, and Facebook reads our messages.. and so on. So, what about GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud, AWS, etc. ? Do they do any "reading" (automated or not) of data? If they say "no" should we trust that answer?
elixic:
User's aren't customers, user aren't even products, user's are data sources. User's behavior and habits are the product. The product is sold to their customers (businesses) so those businesses can leverage that information (the habits of the users) in order to know who to target for which type of advertisement. That's it. It's not a conspiracy, it's capitalism. We can trust them to do the things that increase their profit. If you are their customer (a business) you can trust them. They give their customers ways to protect data, encrypt it, and back it up. Their customers data is very important to protect, because their customers pay them. Their users don't pay them, they get services in exchange for information about their habits. Install a pi-hole on your network. Disable tracking cookies. Don't use google Chrome.