We store your data in Norway, and Norway has one of the strictest privacy laws in the world - even long before the GDPR came into force. The problem is that companies can verify themselves, without an independent and external review.Īt Onlime we are a Danish company. PRISM), there is no certainty yet that the NSA cannot access Dropbox users' data.Ĭoupled with the US's loophole-ridden privacy laws, overall security and your rights are inadequate.Īnd since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force, companies storing data in the US must be verified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. Since Edward Snowden leaked documents about the US intelligence agency's illegal wiretapping (e.g. Thus, your files are not readable by anyone but you - by default. Among other things, files are encrypted during transfer and stored in encrypted form on their servers in the cloud. With Onlime, you can also time the backup, exclude underlying files and folders from backup and more.īasically, Dropbox is a secure enough service to use - technically. Our automatic backup can back up all available folders from your computer - including other internal and external hard drives. We similarly allow you to sync files and folders to the cloud and other devices. But the reputation has been tarnished, as discussed by John Gruber of Daring Fireball Dropbox drains computing power and syncing files is problematic. on other hard drives, network hard drives and external hard drives) unprotected against deletion, crashes, malware and hacker attacks.ĭropbox's software for computers and mobile devices has a reputation for reliability. It leaves all other folders on Windows and Mac (e.g.
This means you have to manually move files to the Dropbox folder to keep them safe and secure in the cloud.Īnd the backup can only secure files in local folders on a single hard drive. Either you can save files to the Dropbox folder and then sync them to the cloud and other devices - or you can back up local folders, like Desktop, Documents and Photos. Dropbox gives you limited ways to use the cloud.
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