As I’ve read about people potentially losing their personal data during the Microsoft/T-Mobile/Danger/Sidekick fiasco, I thought to my self, well that’s the price you pay when you rely on the cloud to keep you safe. But the same thing could happen to me now that I’m using a Palm Pre. It relies heavily (far too heavily) on Google Contacts (an awful system, definitely not up to par with Google’s normal standard) and Facebook.
Fortunately there are extra services ($$ Missing Sync) that can enable you to make offline copies of important information, like emails, phone numbers, addresses, calendars etc. Sure there is a good argument to be made that Google is a nice big company and should be safe.
If Google’s servers aren’t safe, whose are?
The answer to that question, is who cares. Back up your data yourself and have another level of redundancy. It is 2009, going on 2010 as I write this and if there is anything we’ve learned in recent decades is that you can NOT trust big companies to protect you, and espeically you can’t trust big companies to protect any of your data!
Got it? Yeah, I know its a no brainer, now go find a way to back up your information!
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