
Private is the category where you need the most burdensome protections, and you don't want to put less valuable information in that category because those extra security measures cost you time, sometimes money, and generally some frustration.Īll private information should be stored encrypted. You can ask yourself how much damage would I be willing to endure if I lost "personal" information to help you decide if a specific item of information should go in "private" or not.

My suggestion is you create three big categories of information, Public, Personal and Private. To the question if a service provider's level of security is "safe" (sufficient and appropriate), the answer is YES and NO - depending on the level of protection the specific information requires.
#Google photos backup private license
When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content."Ĭonsider this from an Information Management or Information Assurance question rather than an Information Protection question. In short, what belongs to you stays yours. "You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. We also don't control, verify, or endorse the content that you and others make available on the service." "Except for material that we license to you, we don't claim ownership of the content you provide on the service. These Terms do not grant us any rights to your stuff or intellectual property except for the limited rights that are needed to run the Services, as explained below." We don’t claim any ownership to any of it. "By using our Services you provide us with information, files, and folders that you submit to Dropbox (together, "your stuff").

Here is an excerpt from the explaining the differences of the 3 major players, notice Google is very liberal with what they can do with your data. I would say no its not suitable for storing criticial information,įrom the sound of their terms Google essentially owns everyting you upload as well as anything derivitive of your data as well.
