The UN calls on Qatar to abolish its system that treats foreign workers almost as slaves.

China has decided to adopt tough measures against pollution. The tough part will be overcoming corruption in order to enforce the requirements.

Kenya will deploy 60 drones to catch poachers of elephants and rhinos.

Indigenous people demanding a cleanup of pollution have occupied an oil field in the Peruvian Amazon.

Microsoft's remote storage disservice, OneDrive, has been caught inserting modifications into code in some of the files users store there.

Although this has not been reported about any other remote storage disservice, any of them could start doing this, which means you would be a fool to trust them with anything other than checksummed files.

All of these disservices spy on their users, and that is plenty of reason to reject them, for anything other than encrypted (and checksummed) files. In order for the encryption to be trustworthy, you need to do it on your own computer with free software.

Services provided by network servers can raise several different ethical issues, including nonfree client-side JavaScript (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html), surveillance (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html), and SaaSS (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html). Whether any of these problems applies depends on the facts.

The purpose of the marketing buzzword "cloud" is to encourage you to disregard the facts and not judge. Don't let them "cloud" your mind: reject the term "cloud".