[nikhildahake]

How else do you propose to own your data? What if I encrypt the data before storing on Google drive and decrypt it after fetching from google drive?

Your data is pretty much all over the internet anyway. On HN news servers, your mail servers, etc etc. So, how do you decide who to trust and who not to?

[zzo38computer]

Private data I will store on my own computer. Public data I will store both on my own computer and elsewhere, and I don't care where they copy it; it is public so you can put it wherever you want to put.

[nikhildahake]

Let's say you are sharing pictures with your friends and you want them to access those pictures even when your computer is offline. That would mean that those pictures need to be stored on a server from where they can be served. So, we can rule out your computer.

How do you propose that we store the data in this case? I can only think of storing it on some server in an encrypted form. Your thoughts?

[zzo38computer]

Depending on the intended distribution, I might use DVDs or printouts or other kind of physical media like that. But, for some uses that won't do, so then you would encrypt them and store them on a server.