Uploading a document to the cloud? Do this first | Fast Company
The cloud has been a godsend when it comes to managing and storing our data. Before the advent of cloud storage more than a decade ago, the most common way to back up documents or transfer them between devices was either to email individual files to yourself or save them to an external drive and physically transfer them from one computer to the next.
But cloud storage solutions changed all that. Popular cloud storage services like Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, and Apple iCloud Drive made it dead simple to back up, store, and keep our documents synced across devices. Yet for that convenience, there was a cost: privacy. When we are using any of the major cloud services from the Big 4, we are theoretically granting them, or anyone who can hack them, access to everything we store on their cloud: our financial records, our health records, our photos and notes and diaries.