I&#x27;m not saying Google deliberately handed data over to the NSA. I&#x27;m saying the NSA (and others) are try getting to it one way other other. It&#x27;s not necessarily that Google is untrustworthy, but that if the data does get out, however that happens, it will be quite devastating.<p>&gt; And you have chosen not to believe a statement made in the strongest possible terms.<p>A) It&#x27;s not in the &quot;strongest possible term&quot;. Quite a bit of weasel-wording there IMO.<p>B) How does a statement&#x27;s strength validate it? I can strongly say any lie I want.<p>&gt; Indeed, and we can&#x27;t do that because it would invalidate the very security that you want.<p>I agree. And I would like a solution to this. There&#x27;s just not a good way for me to trust cloud providers.<p>&gt; The easy solution here is to not keep any of that data in de-anonymised form for longer than is necessary, but then people don&#x27;t want to believe the privacy policies which say this is happening...<p>&gt; The easy solution here is to not keep any of that data in de-anonymised form for longer than is necessary, but then people don&#x27;t want to believe the privacy policies which say this is happening...<p>I don&#x27;t see how that&#x27;s at all relevant.<p>A) Just because one asshole on the internet doesn&#x27;t believe the policy doesn&#x27;t mean Google should just give up on it.<p>B) That doesn&#x27;t address my point. Tomorrow-Google will still get access to my data, unknown to me. I can&#x27;t verify the &quot;trustworthiness&quot; of a company every day.