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There is a huge privacy issue in the Cloud. Some progress has been made with Homomorpohic encryption, but its still some time away.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2010/03/18/38566/

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Privacy is the big reason I don't put anything really private in "the cloud." I don't care how good the security is, ultimately humans run these services, and humans are corruptible.

One possible answer is to use encryption of some sort when uploading/downloading files. This is annoying to implement though.

I highly recommend EncFS. It's easy to set up and simple to use. The main downside I know of is that is doesn't keep the number of files or their sizes private but, really, who cares?

I've recently stumbled across tarsnap. It's command-line, but if you're not afraid of that, it's very nice.

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