By Erick The Indian Government is now offering 1 GB of cloud storage for free for Indian citizens. See here.
Have I registered yet? No. Why not?
Well, to be honest:
- I already have Google Drive, and admittedly I pay close to 6k a year for expanded storage. Paisa diya toh istimaal karna hai na?
- Key documents like passport copy, aadhaar card, etc. I store on my phone’s local storage and is always accessible. To me.
- So far there’s no mandate from the Government to have key documents in DigiLocker, and I don’t see any added benefit of using DigiLocker that I don’t get from Google Drive.
- Information security. This quite honestly is the fundamental reason. I’m not ashamed of documents like my 10th and 12th marksheet, but my storing them with another cloud provider gives one added channel for these documents to be stolen or misused, right? Not that I don’t trust the Government, but information security is a risk for all cloud service providers.
- What or who are DigiLocker Partner organizations (see screenshot above)?
I guess DigiLocker makes far more sense for someone who isn’t using Google Drive, or Microsoft’s OneDrive or others. Between trusting Google / Microsoft / Amazon or the Indian Government to store my data, I’d trust the Indian Government.
What do you think?