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Re:Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning' by throwaway81523 on Friday August 13, 2021 @09:12PM (#28176834)
I have dedicated and virtual servers at OVH and Hetzner and other companies. I'm quite confident they don't scan for anything on the hard drives. One of the selling points of Scaleway.com's C14 backup product (previous incarnation, don't know about current one) was that the storage was encrypted and that they would delete their copy of the decryption key if you checked a box. If you chose that option, you could not restore your backup without re-entering the key (block of hex digits that you had to copy on making the backup). It wouldn't surprise me if that resulted in the obvious sob stories about lost keys.

Those are not US companies but I've never heard of AWS, DO, etc. scanning people's storage either.

Re:Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning' by noduerme on Saturday August 14, 2021 @12:37AM (#28177950)
AWS offers encrypted backups, and afaik there's no scanning of anything you put in a bucket, but why trust them? Just encrypt your own backups before uploading them, and keep your own keys. In other words, your storage provider needn't and shouldn't be the purveyor of your backup software.

Except with an iPhone, you don't have a choice.

Re:Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning' by kevin_thibedeau on Friday August 13, 2021 @09:40PM (#28177005)
> but I've never heard of AWS, DO, etc. scanning people's storage either.

Pre-Snowden, that was insourced by the NSA.