[Octopuz]

I would be happy to pay up if I could be sure that my account is safe at Google. I am mentioning this because of multiple reports of people who saw their account being closed because of an unnamed TOS violation, and no way to get it back.

The people working at Google might not be able/allowed to comment on this, although I would appreciate their view on this issue.

[deanclatworthy]

Yep. This is giving me anxiety too. I know us technical folk talk about what a backup solution really is and that the cloud is not a reliable backup solution.

The reality is a lot of folks don’t think this way and don’t want to have usb hard drives laying around or NAS in the living room next to the router.

People are storing their digital lives with Google. And they’re having them destroyed too, without any recourse.