Cloud Providers Now Billing Users for "Ghost Files" — Deleted Data That Still Costs You Money
SILICON VALLEY — Your 50GB of cloud storage now includes 300GB of files you deleted three years ago. That’s right: your tech company is charging you for digital ghosts, according to a new billing transparency report from the Cloud Storage Transparency Coalition.
“We’re seeing a new phenomenon where customers expect their deleted photos to just… vanish,” said Marcus Henderson, a spokesperson for MegaStorage Inc., the world’s largest cloud provider. “But what they don’t realize is that their hard drive still has a relationship with those files, and that relationship is a recurring monthly expense.”