Keisha’s cloudy Bio
Hello All,
I reside in Jamaica. I am a Computer studies lecturer at Teachers’ College for over ten years. I will be completing the MET programme at the end of this semester. I have a passion for technology and I also love teaching with technology. I am also fascinated with “files in the clouds” since it provides us with the opportunity to store data and information online using internet technologies having to store them on software installed on a physical computer or other forms of storage media. I often use Google Docs, Dropbox, Box.net and others regularly in my classroom practices. Daily I use email services from popular providers such as Hotmail and Gmail and these already provide cloud computing for free. For example, these days, I backup my files in my email. I have access to them anywhere I go. Although I love the idea of cloud computing, I have some issues with it. I often wonder for example if I can trust third parties to manage my files and encryption etc. What are your view?
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mcquaid 2:42 pm on October 26, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Keisha, I think your fear is a common one. Handing our files to someone “out there” to take care of is a big leap of faith & trust. Take Facebook, for example – ever notice in the fine print how it gives them permission t retain all of your files / info even if you delete everything down the road? Rather scary. Yet, it’s extremely popular.
What would it take for you to have more trust in such providers / parties?
hall 4:10 am on October 29, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Keisha and mcquaid,
Cloud technology is great but I think it is too transparent. We cannot trust the cloud technology because it lacks confidentiality. I appreciate the information that mcquaid has suggested on Facebook about the providers’ privileges. I was unaware such information.