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For non-personal information absolutely. For personal information absolutely not. Too many breaches of internet security for me to recommend putting personal information on the cloud. But then again how many people use cloud based password managers which if cracked would reveal all of a persons passwords.
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But the question was would I recommend it!
Never! Not my area of expertise and there are enough bulls*****rs out there without me adding to the population.
Happy to help family and friends evaluate advice they've been given from "experts" but they're essentially on their own with things like this
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As with most things, it depends. Storing your holiday photos online is one thing, but storing your credit card details is another. So there is no black and white answer. It really just depends.
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Paranoia is not the way to go.
Today it is almost impossible to anything in the internet without sharing at least a bit of your data. You have no control anyway. So if you decide to use it, use it right.
If all the big cloud providers (google, ms, ...) were so totally untrustworthy, there wouldn't be the business clouds and all that decentralized architectures around.
Basically it's your choice: Do you trust your provider or not?
But this question is in no way different from the question "do I trust my car mechanic?" or "do I trust the airline when I enter their plane?"
Everything you do has a risk attached. Be it your life when you enter an airplane, be it your (digital) life when you put your data in the cloud with the benefit of "no backups anymore! yay!" and all the comfort to have your data at hand everytime, everywhere.
Honestly... Put your data on G-Drive but don't blame anybody but yourself if you don't establish at least 2-factor-auth and/or other security measures like backup-(offline)-codes and the like.
If your google account has the password 123456GOD and no 2FA, no backup codes and if you don't want to enter your phone number and an alternative email-address... if you don't want to log in to chrome to use the device finder and all that stuff... WHY would want to use the cloud then?
You can't use the cloud without actually CONNECTING to it.
Use it full or don't use it at all.
Trust your provider or not.
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Apple and the "stars nude" hacks alone should have them worried. Equifax? Oh dear.
Lets face it: security on the cloud is cr@p. Probably because it's "flavour of the month" and everybody is still jumping on the bandwagon to make as much as possible as fast as they can - and security isn't important in that aim.
Use the cloud as a backup for your data yes - it's better than no backup at all, just - but don't expect it to be safe, secure or private. And fer gawds sake, don't store personal information there!
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Don't you use a password manager? 
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Just like sharing ... personal photos ... with someone that may be your ex one day, you should prepare yourself for the possibility that the world may see it if you store anything on the cloud.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Use the cloud as a backup for your data yes - it's better than no backup at all, just - but don't expect it to be safe, secure or private. And fer gawds sake, don't store personal information there!
I do that. I also do store personal information there as backup, but I encrypt it first. It's all automated.
Kevin
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So ... do your friends and family know how to encrypt stuff? 
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No, I was just answering for myself.
Kevin
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To friends and family, I have a SIL who I can fob them off on and he knows more about that crap than I do
You might think you are doing the right thing but when it all goes tits up YOU will be to blame. Make them beg for advice and then lay down a caveat that you are not responsible if they screw up.
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