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With Facebook and many other social networking sites becoming a pillar in the communication and social life of modern society, people are beginning to think that everything online is private. The fact is people are posting everything online, so the idea of data ownership is getting lost. Then with all that data online, even one's personal info and activities, employers are looking into the Facebooks and Tweets of their employees to monitor their actions and look up past activities that could blemish the image of their business. Many cases of this have arisen where employers make an employee allow them access to their Facebooks or fire them on what they find. Privacy settings should have been set and if not, then that falls to the fault of the owner of the account. The fact is that people are posting all the time and it is extremely profitable, so cloud storage has become almost a necessity (Greg, 2012).
Cloud storage is nice, but it is not one's personal property. A person using a physical drive or a large company using an in-house network is controlled by the ones who own the drive or network. In the case of cloud storage system, a third party owns the network in which the data is stored so a lot of faith is put into the service provider. The fact is that the provider controls the network so they technically have full access to all the information in the network. Some people fear the network can be exploited to access people's personal information, especially when it comes to medical and government files. Then if something happens to data on the network, the provider is not necessarily liable to even help recover the lost or corrupted data (King, 2009).