It boggles my mind how people can have their digital life under third party computers ONLY. I was a GMail user, since when it was beta/invite only, but I always have had local copy of anything in usable formats...

It might sound rude, but people have to learn a thing: only things you really own are yours, the rest might be there or not, might be good or bad, but it remain something ephemeral, not to be trusted for anything. And that's why we MUST stop connected-devices to fill our life from cars to home doors: we do not really own them and we should.