re: The tyranny of GOOGLE. How to limit their exposure

The point is we are moving into a mass surveillance state. We already are, but there are steps you can take to make things harder. It's best to get ahead as much as possible.

That's not a bad thing. As usual, you will have to trade up convenience to stay autonomous (for as long as possible).

I recently deleted everything on my cloud and stopped backing everything up (would be considered a domestic terrorist just on my memes alone). I'm sure they have the older stuff stored. I am only backing up phone numbers. You can save pictures in other ways.