Is Google drive secure enough for website archiving club minutes linked on the club website for member access?

Is there a secure better member accessible archive?

How secure must the file be? If you're posting it on a personal GMail Google Drive account, you'll just be able to create a link and provide that link to members. Anyone with the link can View the file. (They would need a Google account to access it, but anyone with a Google account and the link can access it.)

You can put it up on a WordPress website and add it through its content management system. But it still would be available to everyone with the direct link.

The right way to secure it would be for each person to have their own username and password to access the "private" area of the site where the minutes are posted. You can do this with a WordPress site, and I suppose other content management systems can also do it.

Asked my brother, ex googler (got caught in last layoffs after 5yrs) how secure Google drive is

His reply was “extremely secure”

If non-fifearms related then, yes. If anything could be construed as "Consrvative" or persons could be targeted for not agreeing with a liberal agenda... then, resoundingly, no. Google is very secure until you use them for something they don't agree with.

I forgot to mention these are gun club minutes. We use weebly as an info website. No selling.
There is a public access section. And a member only access section. The minutes link is a "button" in the member section
Trouble is the gmail home for the drive is just like a special personal email and we share the editing of the drive with other gmail people. The sharing gets confusing and google itself adds much more whether you like it or not. I think google can reach in and grab other files not intended for the archive. The add them to a "home" page for our drive experience...

I would not put it on google drive

ever

if someone wants a copy, email it to them, otherwise keep everything local on a thumb drive as far from the 'cloud' as you can get

Could you use DropBox and share folder there? That allows for you to designate people as able to edit or not I believe.

I regard Google's offerings as "secure" as anyone's. I am not going to try to define what "secure" means. The benefit of Google's large presence means, among other things, that should a breach occur, you will be pretty certain to hear about it whether Google discloses it or not. And also, that they hae a lot to lose, reputationally at least, if they are compromised. If Google is making money off your content, they will be working pretty hard to keep other random parties from poaching "their data." So it comes down to, do you trust Google or "everybody else" more? This is the same equation for every provider, so the question resolves to "who do you trust the most?" In the complicated world of the modern Internet, this is an extremely difficult question to answer, even if you are aware of all the facts (which you can never be). Note that hosting your own service, e.g. with OwnCloud or the like, means you have to trust your own system administration skills more than the professionals, not realistic for most folks.

Personally, I'd have little concern with placing content of this type on Google Drive, or (preferably) on Google Docs. The latter more for ease-of-use, revision control, and collaborative capabilities rather than "security." I' suspect the greatest threats would be poor security practices (passwords, loose lips, etc.) on the part of your fellow club members (who do you trust not to be careless?) rather than some inherent vulnerability in Google's authentication infrastructure.