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Many cloud providers cooperate fully with investigative authorities and will not hesitate to hand over your data. Only store encrypted data there.

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In general, you should consider whether you need the relevant cloud services at all. For example, you can use apps such as "OpenKeychain" to encrypt files before uploading them to a cloud. If you use an Apple device with your iCloud, activate extended data protection there. In general, you should store sensitive and critical data locally. For example, on an encrypted hard disk.

It can be assumed that secret services and other state actors also intercept encrypted data during transmission and store it in order to decrypt it at some point in the future.

Particularly important for the following target groups:

Sources and further links

  1. Investigators to gain easier access to cloud data, heise.de, (de), 2024-10-28
  2. Apple beats the drum for end-to-end encryption of cloud data, heise.de, (de), 2023-12-06
  3. BAMF to read out asylum seekers' cloud storage, netzpolitik.org, (de), 2023-08-03
  4. OpenKeychain: Easy PGP, f-droid.org, (en)
  5. So aktivierst du den erweiterten Datenschutz für iCloud, apple.com, (en)
  6. Harvest now, decrypt later, en.wikipedia.org, (en)