If you use #GoogleDrive, you are also allowing Google to do whatever they want with your files: they can read them, copy them, give them to anyone else, make derivative works, even publish them online without your permission (see attached screenshot). #DropBox is similar.
In other words, private files uploaded to Google Drive are no longer private.
You might want to try #privacy aware #NextCloud instead, which actually lets you control who gets to see/use your stuff:
https://switching.social/ethical-alternatives-to-dropbox-google-drive-and-google-docs/
@switchingsocial This is odd. A lot of people use Google Drive to store files in a way they consider "private", i.e. not shared with other users. It would be quite an uproar if Google, following the terms it outlined here, would grab those files and display the publicly despite the intent of the uploaders. So why hasn't this uproar ever happened?
@switchingsocial I'm not sure how to interpret it, but maybe the next paragraph explains why?
"Sharing settings in Google Drive allow you to control what others can do with your content in Google Drive. By default you are set up as the controller of all content you create or upload to Google Drive. You can share your content and can transfer control of your content to other users."
@switchingsocial I don't know if "others" here includes Google themselves.
