Privacy

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Periodically, I review my services to determine whether I'm getting the best balance of features for what I pay. For remote file sync I've been using Tresorit for quite some time... I find it easy to manage and I love that I can sync all of the things. Problem is... they keep changing the plans. I've manage to finagle discounts for long-term use, but I expect that my efforts will eventually fail.

So... what providers do you use? How have your experiences been? I'm willing to consider other providers, as long as they:

• Have a solid track record (I use this for work type stuff and I don't want to find myself scrambling to reconnect to an offsite provider later)

• Have E2EE (I mean, should be a given.)

• Can sync individual folders and disparate locations

• Preferably, are not hosted in a privacy-backward location.

Can you help? Or is poor Melpomene stuck paying for Tresorit forevermore?

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Swedish privacy authority has fined Spotify for violating the Right of Access held under European Union's General Data Protection Regulation.

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A newly declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reveals that the federal government is buying troves of data about Americans.

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