Well, if framed like this, you are right, I don't need convincing, I should just go ahead and switch to freedom tech
However, is it a "complete authority over me" if I simply keep my pictures on Google photos and use Gmail?
In one sense, yes, it is, in that, they could easily delete my pictures (I have a backup), and for sure they know a lot about me (but unfortunately they know it already, but yes, better to move out for the future)
Yeah, I guess, as I'm writing these words, I'm convincing myself to move more fully
Thank you
"Give me six lines written by the most honest of men, and I shall find something in them to hang him."
- Cardinal Richelieu, then Prime Minister of absolutist France.
Selfies and likes and AI-guided cloud services are fun, but in the right hands can easily lead to "fitting-up", entrapment or "conspiracy to XXXXX". And there will be a cherry picked "established pattern of" whatever with which to bury your defence in maliciously-misconstrued evidence.
A person with assets and an extensive Google file is like a ripe fruit ready to be plucked, and by private lawsuits as much as by law enforcement looking to fill up numbers.
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