What alternatives to Dropbox/GoogleDrive/OneDrive etc are available today, that are EU based?

- Nextcloud Files is one
- any others people would recommend?

Hosted is fine, if within EU. German User Interface is essential.

https://european-alternatives.eu/de/ueber-uns

Background:

My accountant needs to make a per-customer data share available for ~400 different customers. Almost all of these are Windows, with a few macOS, and ... one FreeBSD person. Erm.

They are planning to consolidate 400 different customer ways of transferring data, to a single standard one.

We had a long and fruitful discussion today, about AI, privacy, and GDPR.

They would like to use Google Drive, and I said that all the USA companies make GDPR compliance very problematic, both due to their pro-AI stance, and also to the generally shakey stance of the various legislative frameworks that have been successfully challenged in recent years.

https://umatechnology.org/european-court-of-justice-rules-the-u-s-safe-harbor-data-sharing-pact-is-invalid/
https://iapp.org/news/a/schrems-addresses-emerging-questions-around-eu-us-data-privacy-framework/
https://www.hoganlovells.com/en/publications/latombe-case-first-hearing-for-annulment-of-the-euus-data-privacy-framework
https://iapp.org/news/a/european-commissioner-discusses-eu-us-data-privacy-framework-potential-gdpr-reform

The LLM tech bros all talk about “frontier models”

and it strikes me that this use of settler colonialist language is surprisingly appropriate.

They’re enclosing the commons of our knowledge and our culture. They’re putting up barbed wire, so they can make us pay rent for everything.