There is a term used in the online community that some people don't understand.
"THE CLOUD"
Some people think that this is a location on their device (phone, tablet, computer, etc...) or some magical thing that nobody else has access to. Neither of these ideas are true and believing that they are can lead to a false sense of security for the end user.
If you store data on a cloud, then all that means is you store it remotely on a different hard drive on a computer in a different place than where you currently are.
Here is the security issue. Most people rely on an outside company to provide and maintain that storage. That means they provide the hardware, the software on it, the security for it, and the connection of it to the internet. If they fail to do any of these things correctly, whether through negligence or malicious intent, then your data can be unavailable, lost, compromised, changed, sold, etc. If that company does everything right but goes out of business, gets sold to a different company, gets hacked, etc. the same things can happen.
There is a saying in the cryptocurrency community, "No Keys, No Coins." What this means is that if someone else controls your access to what is yours, then it is not really yours. Whoever controls access can take your data, change it, or at the very least deny you access to it. Think back to the early days of cellphones. Any photos you took with them stayed on the phone and were lost if you lost the phone.
There are ways to host your own cloud services on your own remote computer if this is a concern for you (and it should be).
Remember what happened to Parler?
They were denied access to the internet for political reasons. People are de-platformed all the time from youtube, twitter (X), instagram, facebook etc. many times losing years of content in the process with no recourse to reaquire it. They also lose contact with eveyone they formerly contacted through that platform.
3 takeaways for this:
Control your Data/Keys
Back-Up Your Data
Back-Up Your Contacts.
If you want more information about self hosting cloud data you might want to check out a company like Start9.com
They are here https://iris.to/start9.com
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