Europeans don't trust US tech giants with their data

A new study reveals that 82 percent of Europeans don't trust US tech giants with their personal files, despite increasing reliance on cloud services due to COVID-19. The survey of 4,500 people across the UK, France and Germany, conducted by pCloud, one of Europe's fastest-growing file-sharing and cloud storage providers, finds the biggest concerns are personal data being used for commercial gain (51 percent) and the possibility of hacks (43 percent). The location of data servers is important to users, with 82 percent saying they would rather have their data stored in Europe than the United States, while 74 percent… [Continue Reading]