Is my personal data safer when stored on a company’s private network, or in a cloud service like AWS or Google Cloud? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world.

Answer by Mathew Lodge, Tech executive, on Quora:

Your personal data is 99.999% safer on a major cloud service, unless you work for Facebook, Dropbox, Google, Amazon et al. By that I mean three things: