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Reading the docs, this seems to be targeted towards personal data backups for individuals. References to photos, interactive usage, support for consumer cloud storage backends, etc.

Thus it surprises me that a tool for personal data backup on the cloud has a fair bit of community support (1651 stars on github) when the encryption features remain a vague notion after 4 years of development. Nor is there any recommended encryption workflow using an external tool.

Does our culture still find it acceptable that, in 2016, personal data, and almost certainly in many cases very sensitive private data, is being seen unencrypted by cloud providers?

I think that, while the norm is to not think twice about letting a private entity have practically unlimited access to your personal data, we as community need to focus on tools that keep an individual's data private by default.