Yes, Your Cloud Storage Provider Is Looking For Child Porn In Your Files
Dr. Katina Michael, an associate professor at University of Wollongong in Australia and TED speaker, has been studying new technologies and their social implications since the late 1990’s. She said that she won’t store any sensitive statistics on Google Drive because she doesn’t believe it’s private.
“I use Google Drive for some things. But, do I want data of a sensitive nature e.g.—the statistics that I gather which I tell my ethics committee are under lock and key—do I want to break that by storing everything on the internet or the cloud?” Michael said. “And then someone down the road saying, ‘well, we found data that you had?’ I’m not going to share data that has to be private- it’s not private on a cloud, in fact it’s free, and I say to [my students], nothing is free.”
Michael also said that all that information you store for free, could eventually cost you money.
“It’s not going to take long before they’re charging for something, and then we’re all handcuffed have to pay because we put our whole lives on the internet,” Michael said.
Authors
Cassie Slane, Huffington Post
Katina Michael, University of Wollongong
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