Bye Bye Big Tech Step 3: A privacy friendly cloud
Leaving Big Tech might not always seem easy at first. Where do you begin, and what are actually good alternatives? To help you on your way, we’ve put together a step-by-step guide with alternatives. Here you can find all the steps.
Are your family photo's stored on Apple Cloud, Goggle Drive or Microsoft's OneDrive? You are not the only one. A lot of us are very dependent on American Big Tech Companies for cloud storage. If your file management and storage is done via an American server, you are at risk. In the future you might not be able to use these services without American consent, or without it being read or looked at.
We will admit that changing to a privacy friendly cloud is not the easiest of the steps: most often the transferring of data from one cloud to another has to be done by hand and this takes time. Also, Big Tech connects their cloud storage to their operating systems, which sometimes means it is impossible to disconnect - unless you transfer to another operating system. If that change is just a bit to much, you can of course still choose to not use the cloud that is provided by the Big Tech operating system. You can still save your pictures and files in a privacy friendly cloud.
Like you can see in the chart below, there are European cloud providers. You don't loose much in terms of usability: most of these services have options to easily open and transfer files, to create a photo album, to recover files and have possibilities to share documents, just like Google and Microsoft.