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The Apple CSAM scanning highlights something many know but shrugged off, your data in the cloud is yours, and the providers. Unless you take strong measures to combat it, your data is yours and theirs.

Background In discussions with someone about cloud security, they were surprised to learn I store anything in the cloud. It's convenient to have my files synced between machines. I use syncthing, resilio, and cloud drives.

Over the past year, I steadily removed Google from my life. Initially, it was an experiment to see which products I could live without. Turns out, I can live without all of it. I'm not the first person…