Have a look at SwissTransfer. Its run by Infomaniak, and supports files up to 50gb. You can password protect transfers and set the maximum amount of times a file can be downloaded.
Alternatively you can go a bit old school and encrypt the files on a pen drive and send by courier. I still do this as I have some family with broadband speeds from 20 years ago.
Sweet Jesus, it really is time to bail. Any recommendations on where to go? I’m hearing the weather is much better in France and Spain.
Is Scotland on board with this dictatorship malarky or are they fighting it? I didn’t see them kick up a fuss about the online safety bill which made it to law, which makes me think they aren’t fighting it.
It can be difficult. I went cold turkey and if people wanted to contact me they either had to SMS me, email me, or install Signal. Most went with the latter over time apart from some older family members that still use SMS. I’m never going to persuade them to change that behaviour and that’s OK. Overall it wasnt too tricky it just took a bit of time.
I actually ran into more problems with a former employer demanding that I install WhatsApp on my personal phone. That got really messy and stressful.
Morning,
Another Brit here. I went through something like this…
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Moved emails from Microsoft and Google to a provider like Proton, Tutanota or Mailbox.org.
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Degoogled mobile by moving to LineageOS and replaced apps with FOSS equivalents. Use the likes of Mull, K9 Mail, Aegis, etc.
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Started using Signal instead of WhatsApp, SMS and Telegram, etc. Persuading friends and family to install it can be a challenge but stick with it.
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Implemented Pihole and unbound to minimise adverts and tracking. Blocked access to the internet for smart home devices (they were in the house when we bought it).
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After it came out that MI5 had been working with BT to spy on internet users I started using a VPN almost permanently, then on mobile too (after I discovered EE heavily monitor all mobile data usage). Look at Proton or Mullvad for VPN.
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This isn’t for everyone and I’m not going to be one of those that preach to do it but I got shot of MS Windows and jumped into Linux. I still have a Windows 10 VM for apps I can’t get to run under Linux.
Initially though I used the likes of Windows 10 Privacy or O&O Shutup to disable as much of the crap I wasn’t happy with and O&O AppBuster to remove built in apps I didn’t want. I used simplwall to control what app had network access too.
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When i eventually got around to changing email addresses for online accounts, I setup temp and burner adddresses (look at Simplelogin or anonaddy). I share my actual email with trusted sources only.
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I never use my real personal details for any service, online or otherwise, other than official ones, government, banking, etc.
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Bought a little secondhand NAS for the house that I run Jellyfin from to stream music and movies. Cancelled Spotify. Also cancelled Sky and got a freesat box.
If you want to mimimise your bank or online shops profiling you, shop in physical stores and pay with cash. Extreme maybe but I know people that do this.
Finally whilst not explicitly part of my privacy journey, that journey ended up influencing my decision when it came to changing my car. The previous one was newer with lots of connected services, and as I discovered terrible privacy and data sharing policies. The current one is older with the only connected service being the tracker. Like I say, not part of my privacy journey but once I got into that way of thinking, it influenced my decision.
GDPR clearly states you can contact any part of the organisation with your request. You can make your request verbally or in writing and they must acknowledge it. They can’t refuse and make you use their app.
For fun send them a Subject Access Request and if they don’t acknowledge it, report them to the ICO (if you’re in the UK)
If privacy and security are your top priorities, which it sounds like they are, and you want a performance similar to OnePlus 8, go with the Google Pixel 8 with GrapheneOS. It’s more aligned with your need for strong app sandboxing and convenient Google services integration, etc.