Damn! Damn! Damn!

ProjectBazza said

Why? In the "small print" of the User Agreement that nobody ever reads, once you upload something to the Cloud you lose control of it. (Or maybe it's ownership, I forget). I doubted this for years, but then this came up during a discussion I had with a good friend who worked for one of the Cloud companies (a subcontactor company), and he confirmed that, yes. Once someone uploads a photo to the Cloud, they (the Cloud people) are free to sell or share it as they see fit. And I disagree with this.

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The "cloud" doesn't exist. It's just someone else's computer. Remember "The Fappening" in 2014? It was a valuable lesson that most people ignored. If someone sends me an important picture via phone, the first thing I do after storing it to the SIM card is download it to my PC. I use an old 14MP Kodak EasyShare for pictures, which also go on my PC. Stuff like that is backed up to both magnetic and optical media (CD) so if/when my computer tanks, very little will be lost.

My current dumbphone is a pile of garbage with a worthless camera, but it works as a phone. No GPS, no "find my phone", and no workable internet. It's scrap plastic that rings. My plan from Mint Mobile costs less than $17/month and I've never used 1kB of data. I've never had a smartphone, a.k.a. electronic leash, nor will I. I know too many phone zombies and don't want to become on one of them.