Questions about security, availability, and data protection when upgrading from 1Password V7 to V8

Hi Werner,

For legality et such you should await a confirmation from the mods, but from a community and fellow-user perspective:

1. There are 3 clouds (.com .ca and .eu) - the company behind it is Canadian - that is as far as I'll go wrt politics. As with all clouds - they can disappear ... make a (very secure) backup every now and then.
2. Read up on https://support.1password.com/1password-security/ and especially https://agilebits.github.io/security-design/ 
3. You won't be able to CHANGE things in your account, it will remain read-only
4. That's where your emergency-kit or recovery code come in https://support.1password.com/emergency-kit/ (PRINT, envelop/sign and store SECURE) and https://support.1password.com/recovery-codes/ (understand the implications
5. See previous answer (4)
6. See answer on 2
7. If you don't reboot your device or lapse 'X' time (for personal accounts, business is set by business) you can set it to anything from Never (you shouldn't) to daily require password re-entry. Meanwhile you can access it via your devices biometrics. Theoretical you could do without connectivity for a while (unless on business and external authentication) but eventually it will ask you for your password.
8. See previous answer (7)
9. See answer on 1 - never fully trust someone else's computer - even if they would accept liability you would still be at (unrecoverable) loss
10. Depends start at https://support.1password.com/export/ and rephrase accordingly
11. To my understanding and previous (business, team and enterprise) discussions and agreements, yes to the first part of your question.
12. Depends if you have either on the answer on 4 available or not. If you lost everything, you indeed did that + your data is now very secure.

And yes you should upgrade so you also have the full/improved watchtower and all other good things :) But good on you to check all the boxes.

As said, wait for one of the mods to (more) properly answer any questions or deliberately undiscussed items