Tools like Google Photo bring a lot that it is not easy to waive them in favor of privacy. Now the question is if people still think about privacy when using tools? Or do they choose a local alternative if it was an option? Why or why not?
I divide my files in categories, the defences I put up depend on which category they belong to.<p>Files I casually pick up on the net go into my GPics album. Let google have the here comes dat boi harambe memes.<p>My family pics land on the local NAS drive, where they are stored and kept for safekeeping (though I'm considering to backup to B2B)<p>Of course, some photos require much more aggressive defences, in my case I use LUKS with a simple LVM-RAID1 and a 30+ character password.<p>I don't want everything available on the net, I want that to be available for which I don't care enough to give a singular fudge.
My options:<p>1. Local backup<p>2. SelfHosted cloud like own Cloud or next cloud<p>3. Get the hard copy and put it in beautifully crafted albums<p>4. OneDrive/Dropbox/GooglePhoto/iCloud/Flickr for anything
which isn't personal with still my privacy settings ON. I treat them the way I treat images downloaded from Internet.<p>PS:
Assuming that those are your personal photos as you are concerned about privacy and you describe yourself as a data scientist.
I want my photos local, under my control. I don't have an issue with using the cloud to ease distribution of my photos to all the devices on which I want to view them, but I want a local repository having all my photos - which I will also keep backed up. FWIW, I feel the same way about music, too.