information rights in the "cloud"

Cloud file saving is at an all time high. It provides simple and easy access to stored information from all your devices but there are lingering problems with the cloud. More and more people are becoming concerned with their privacy and right to information stored on the cloud. Even Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak “I think it’s going to be horrendous. I think there are going to be horrible problems in the next five years,” he opined on a trip to Washington. “With the cloud, you don’t own anything. You already signed it away… the more we transfer everything onto the web, onto the cloud, the less we’re going to have control over it.”  Critcism of the cloud isn't new Back in 2008, the founder of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman, called the adoption of cloud-based systems “worse than stupidity… a marketing hype campaign.” By uploading information to cloud servers you essentially give up all right to the information In the words of Douglas Heaven, writing in New Scientist, “a digital file exists as a state of matter… rather than matter itself.” Your information is not a piece of property in any legal sense. There are some ways to avoid the cloud while still having a backup to your files. The service SocialSafe currently offers is the automatic copying of all your cloud content to your own computer – to be held by you no matter what happens online, and browsed or analysed at your own convenience. The service covers the gamut of social media, from Twitter to Facebook via Instagram and LinkedIn. But by the end of next year, it plans to cover categories of data ranging from purchase histories and utility bills to financial and health data