Using services like Google Drive

[firsttimeagain]

New at saving “my” photos. Is it safe/legal to save your own nude photos on a service like Drive? I’ve alway deleted my photos because I do not want them to be saved on my computer. However, I’ve deleted some that I wish I had kept. I don’t take many and I’m not necessarily interested in sharing from a service. But, I would like to have safe storage and access. Just curious what others do with their photos? Thanks for your input…

 

[newspaper_love]

if you have them on your computer and you know when they were deleted or names etc .. then use Recova eg: https://recuva.en.softonic.com/ if you have Windows for instamacer .... its free and works ... My pics are saved to 3 HDDs ( so cheap now ) and 2 USB drives... no porn of my google stuff

 

[jakey44]

In the current digital landscape I'd say, any cloud service for that matter, are not great options for any sensitive materials.

Reason being that accounts are being closed left and right by sometimes falsely flagged or simply breaking ToS. Your own, preferably encrypted, certainly archived backup is key to this. However, this is way to technical for most users. Encryption makes your backups unreable and cloud services won't be able to read into the files anymore, nor flagging it. Some archive formats achieve the same.

Other than that, if it's just your own stuff then you should have no problems nor fears. Though, even still, seen false flags out there. Microsoft being the worst offender here.

Plus, an old hard drive or a big stick works wonders... USB that is