MEGA The Privacy Company

💡 We mapped out how to opt out of AI training on major platforms. Many had it on by default. LinkedIn, for example, can use your posts, profile, and comments to train content-generating AI models. Most especially, the setting is on by default. The catch: opting out only applies going forward. Most platforms use your content or activity for AI training by default unless you opt out or object. Here's how to do that on each one. GitHub Copilot, Grammarly, Canva, Perplexity, Pinterest, and more are covered in the full post: https://lnkd.in/dquFpYyS

They're building the threat and selling the shield. On 27 August, OpenAI published a joint cybersecurity letter co-signed by Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, AWS, Oracle, and dozens more. The concerns raised are legitimate: AI will enable more sophisticated attacks, critical infrastructure is exposed, and under-resourced defenders need better tools and funding. What's absent is any commitment to capability restraint. The organisations co-signing this letter are the same ones setting the pace of AI development. What's more: their proposed solution is to adopt their own defensive AI tools. That's not necessarily cynical (almost), but it's also not accountability. One thing you can actually do about it: opt your data out of AI training across the major platforms https://lnkd.in/gmu2xDXZ

Mount your MEGA S4 storage on your desktop with Mountain Duck ⛰🦆 We've had a lot of requests for this, so here it is. Our new guide shows you how to connect Mountain Duck to MEGA S4 and mount your bucket as a drive in Finder or File Explorer. Browse and access your S4 files without keeping everything on your local machine. Check out our simple setup, step-by-step guide 👉 https://lnkd.in/g97zWA5t More S4 guides to follow. Stay tuned. 

"Zero-knowledge encryption" is becoming a marketing term in cloud storage. Here's what it actually means: your files are encrypted using keys generated on your own device, and the provider never holds those keys in a form it can use. Everything else is a variation of scope. And scope is where most claims quietly narrow. Dropbox applies zero-knowledge encryption only to designated folders on Business Plus, Advanced and Enterprise plans. pCloud limits it to a paid add-on covering one folder. To make that easier to navigate, we put together a 5-point framework for checking any provider's claims against their own public documentation, transparency reports, security white papers, and product pages. Swipe through to see the framework and which providers hold up. Full technical breakdown on https://lnkd.in/gNrb6c4Z

MEGA S4 is now a named provider in ShotPut Studio (Imagine Products Inc) For video professionals using ShotPut Studio to offload and verify camera media, S4 is now available directly in the provider list. Storage costs stay predictable: no egress fees, no per-request charges, and no minimum retention requirements. Pulling footage back for an edit or a client delivery doesn't add to your bill, and restores are covered with 5x your stored data included free each month. No manual endpoint configuration required, just select your region, connect your access keys, and your bucket is ready. Read the setup guide → https://lnkd.in/g8iUe5mT

Earlier this year, the MEGA iOS app adopted the liquid glass design. But we didn't stop there 👇 Over the months that followed, we made sure to: - Improve streaming performance for faster, smoother video and audio playback - Speed up uploads when you manually select photos and videos - Add Live Activities so you can track transfers from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island To enable Live Activities: Settings > MEGA > Live Activities. Download the app here: https://lnkd.in/gQFtqjJW. And if you're already using it, reviews help us understand what to prioritise next: https://lnkd.in/guwFcxa3

📢 Calling post production teams, videographers, photographers and editors working with massive media libraries! MEGA S4 is our S3 compatible object storage service, available today for large scale storage, backup and archiving. We're looking for a small group of media professionals to use S4 in their real workflows and share honest feedback. We'll provide free storage so you can properly put it to use. We're particularly interested in people managing large media libraries across NAS, local storage, external drives or cloud storage. Interested? DM us with what you do, roughly how much data you're storing and how you're storing it today. The bigger the library, the more interested we are 👀 Already looking for low-cost object storage? You can also check out MEGA S4 here: https://lnkd.in/gCnKZAcy

One thing that comes up constantly for freelancers, agencies, and HR teams: how do you securely collect files from people who don't have an account on your storage platform? MEGA's File request feature solves this directly. You designate a folder in your Cloud drive, generate a public upload link (or an embeddable button for your own website), and share it with clients, candidates, or collaborators. They upload straight into that folder, no MEGA account required on their end. A few details worth knowing if secure file collection is part of your workflow: - Every file is encrypted in the contributor's end before it's uploaded, so only the folder owner can access what comes in, not even MEGA can see it. - Files appear in your folder within seconds, timestamped and ready to review. - Setup takes under a minute: select a folder, name the request, share the link. With File request, it's easier to collect sensitive files, like signed contracts, job applications, creative deliverables, or onboarding documents, securely and in one go. See it in action in the video below or try it yourself when you sign up at https://lnkd.in/g3MvScfS

Will you hand over your facial biometric data to get 'verified' on Facebook? Last week, Meta launched a free verified badge for Facebook personal accounts. You submit a selfie video and they cross-check it against your profile photos. Unfortunately, the announcement doesn't say where that video is stored or what Meta does with it after verification. What we do know: Meta is currently paying $650 million in Illinois and $1.4 billion in Texas for collecting facial biometric data without permission. Before you hand over your facial biometric data to Facebook, here's what their announcement didn't tell you: https://lnkd.in/gwU4yVMH

Back in March, Google quietly changed the default free storage for new accounts, from 15 GB to 5 GB, with the remaining 10 GB now gated behind phone number verification. It's a small policy change, but worth sitting with: Google gave away 15 GB free for 13 years, and that same allowance is now a reward for a piece of your data instead of a default. We used this shift as the starting point to properly compare free cloud storage tiers in 2026, not just on space, but on a criterion most comparisons skip: privacy. MEGA still gives 20 GB free on sign-up, no phone number required (And yes, we used to give 50 GB, for our early users who remember). The full comparison covers 10 providers, storage limits, encryption models, and where each one actually makes sense: https://lnkd.in/gVCHuJi2