If you’re leery of trusting your data to a third-party cloud-storage service, and have a web server of your own that you’d rather use, ownCloud may be the answer. It’s free software that installs on most web servers and transforms it into your own private Dropbox clone.
European-U.S. data protection agreement: Yet another attempt, yet another failure
The recent agreement between the US and the EU is the third attempt to secure the transfer of personal data from Europe to the US. Holger Dyroff, co-founder and COO of ownCloud, does not see the new regulatory attempt as a satisfactory solution.
