Dropbox is one of the most popular cloud storage providers out there. For far too long, companies like Google, Microsoft, or Dropbox have abused their position and violated their users’ privacy. Recent events have highlighted the problems that their business models can create. Protecting their users’ privacy conflicts with their business model, which is to use your data in order to serve you targeted ads. That’s why these companies collect more data than what is actually needed.

Dropbox is a US-based company. The United States (unlike Europe, where companies like Tresorit, pCloud or Internxt are based), is known for its aggressive privacy violations. “The Cloud Act, signed into law in March 2018, is an Act to provide trans-border access to communications data in law enforcement investigations. The Act’s history begins with a privacy dispute between Microsoft and the U.S. government, a case in US Supreme Court which concerns whether law enforcement can access communications content under current U.S. law”.

Dropbox is also closed-source and doesn’t feature client-side encryption. With over 500 million users, Dropbox is one of the largest, most well-known cloud storage providers out there. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the worst in terms of privacy. Like many others we will discuss, they provide no privacy for the user. On top of that, they have a former Secretary of State on their board of directors.

Internxt built Drive with the vision of creating the first cloud storage service which presented the user with total control, security, and privacy of their files. Unlike Dropbox, Microsoft’s OneDrive, Apple’s iCloud, etc, Internxt Drive features zero-knowledge encryption, meaning that only you can truly access your files. Unlike with traditional providers, with Internxt Drive, files are uploaded and client-side encrypted, so only you hold the decryption key of these. Additionally, Internxt Drive’s architecture fragments your files before encrypting them, so a server never holds a whole file, but instead, an encrypted shard of it, which only you are able to decrypt.

Internxt Drive presents very similar pricing and interfaces to that of Dropbox, though being superior in its privacy-related features.

Think smart. Make the switch.

PS. Did you know that by using Internxt Drive you’re also having a positive impact on the planet?