Do you still use Google?  Not only do they have ties to the NSA:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.salon.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;16&#x2F;googles_secret_nsa_alliance_the_terrifying_deals_between_silicon_valley_and_the_security_state&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.salon.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;16&#x2F;googles_secret_nsa_alliance_...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;post-politics&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;08&#x2F;hillary-clinton-hires-google-executive-to-be-chief-technology-officer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;post-politics&#x2F;wp&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04...</a><p>Hillary hires Google executive as CTO<p>..and of course the data mining startup that Eric Schmidt is using in an attempt to get Clinton elected as president (the same one that worked for Obama):<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;qz.com&#x2F;520652&#x2F;groundwork-eric-schmidt-startup-working-for-hillary-clinton-campaign&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;qz.com&#x2F;520652&#x2F;groundwork-eric-schmidt-startup-working...</a><p>Many companies in Silicon Valley are tied to bad politicians and politics.  At this point, it&#x27;s almost necessary to survive.<p>My point is that if you are using this as a basis for services that you will or will not use, you will be left with a computer running GEOS...and no access to the outside world.<p>I just don&#x27;t put any data on any cloud provider that I don&#x27;t want the government to see.  Bittorrent Sync works pretty well as a personal cloud provider.