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Many cloud providers cooperate fully with investigating 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.

Particularly important for the following target groups:

  • Migration, flight and asylum
  • House searches and confiscations

Other categories

  • Behavior-based risks
  • Dangers on the Internet
  • Rather more complicated

Sources and further links

  1. Investigators to gain easier access to cloud data, heise.de, (de), 2024-10-29
  2. Apple beats the drum for end-to-end encryption of cloud data, heise.de, (de), 2023-12-07
  3. BAMF to read out asylum seekers' cloud storage, netzpolitik.org, (de), 2023-08-04
  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)
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