Nefarious push for your data to be online

There is a huge (nefarious) push by corporations (who are in bed with governments) to force / entice / reward users to put all their data onto the internet under a mystical marketing label called the cloud, which in reality is someone else's computer systems.

You are 'enticed' to upload your private and confidential data like your PRIVATE passwords,  POS (Point Of Sale) figures, your accounting software's analytics, your private correspondence you composed in Microsoft's products, for 'free' where now you can even use apps to create CAD (Computer Aided Design) drawings which realistically is MAD (Mobile Aided Design?), in order to capture every part of your life.

Technically nothing is for 'free', where people may associate this term, as being without charge, but there is a cost attached, just maybe not passed onto that 'person', at that very instant of the transaction taking place, or it is incorporated elsewhere.

YOUR data stored on a 'free' platform is no longer 'yours' which basically means that this data is used for monetary gain, in whichever way the storage provider sees fit, whether it's disclosed or not.

Once upon a time if authorities needed access to your documents, then (maybe) a search warrant had to have been issued, together with a fair few able bodied people travelling in a gas guzzling vehicle to the place of interest, where a break in may had to occur with the possibility of a scuffle or three, where maybe filing cabinets needed to be removed and sifted through.

All this hard work is now obsolete, where you the 'data generator' stores ALL your information for 'free' in the cloud, where warrants are a distant faded memory and your data is obtained by one person to do what they have been instructed to do, or even do whatever they choose themselves to do with that data.

The 'problem' there is that too many people are choosing to give their data to unknown sources for free, i.e. no monetary compensation.

Now now, let's not make too much noise with the "nothing to hide nothing to fear" propaganda slogan.