

Anyone (especially in the UK) that cares about data privacy and security should abandon cloud storage in favor of local encrypted storage.
We used to have free speech and an open internet in the UK. Now I need a VPN to access Lemmy.zip because Labour has turned Britain into an Orwellian Nightmare.
Anyone (especially in the UK) that cares about data privacy and security should abandon cloud storage in favor of local encrypted storage.
This may come as a shock but the UK is not in the USA and Trump has nothing to do with this. Our corrupt government is fucking things up in their own way.
Just because it LOOKS like you deleted it can you know for a 100% certainty that it isn’t still running and hidden in the background?
It has been for years. But since Two-Tier Kier has arrived on the scene he appears to using 1984 as a how-to manual.
However it’s not ALL bad. It has made a lot of people that until now didn’t care about data privacy start doing what they can to keep their data out of government reach.
Until the Apple ADP fiasco I was all-in on iCloud. Now I don’t use any of it. I use local encrypted storage with dummy partitions and passwords so I can give those if i’m ever forced and they still get fuck all.
I’m switching from iPhone to Pixel soon and its crap like this that made me decide to install GrapheneOS on it as soon as comes out of the box.
Likely depends on your VPN. I use Proton and it’s fine.