Getting ready to enthusiastically shovel all your data into the cloud? Here’s a cautionary tale of what can happen when your connection to that data is pulled because of accusations that you violated Terms of Service.
This is what happened to one Google Apps user
Thomas Monopoly (a pseudonym, although now after being called a fake he’s changed his name to Dylan M … his real first name). He was a happy user (and evangelist it seems) of numerous Google services — until the company disabled his Google account. On July 15 he received an automated message telling him that Google had ‘perceived a violation’ and since then hasn’t been able to access anything linked to that account. Monopoly vehemently denies claims that he did anything wrong and says that he “did not violate any Terms of Service, either Google’s or account specific ToS” and that Google hasn’t offered up any evidence to support its claim of a violation.