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Google Drive Will Soon Back Up Your Entire Computer (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Google is turning Drive into a much more robust backup tool. Soon, instead of files having to live inside of the Drive folder, Google will be able to monitor and backup files inside of any folder you point it to. That can include your desktop, your entire documents folder, or other more specific locations. The backup feature will come out later this month, on June 28th, in the form of a new app called Backup and Sync. In some other news, Box announced on Wednesday desktop apps for its storage service.
...they will examine it all for clues to provide targeted advertising.
Next will be looking for hate speech and porn and reporting it to the authorities.
No thanks.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Wonder how much of your data will be parsed, stored, collated and available to the IRS, NSA and others at their discretion?
Wish such thoughts were tin-foil conspiracy type things.
If you're scared of your govt then you need to further restrict its powers
Vote 3rd Party in 2016 and beyond