You’ll want to use the European Union data center, which is located in Luxembourg. Fortunately, new users have the option to use either a European Union data center or the United States data center. Existing users are currently stuck with the US data center, unless they want to pay the fees to migrate their data to Europe. While pCloud is based in Switzerland, their original data center is in the United States. However, as we are about to see, there is a potential problem. Switzerland is a neutral country that is not part of any international intelligence organizations (as far as I know). The country also has stronger privacy and security laws than most nations.

Founded in 2013, this small company (approximately 30 employees) says they have over 10.5 million users around the world.īeing based in Switzerland is good for the security of your data. PCloud AG (the publisher of pCloud) is a privately held company based in Baar, Switzerland.

Synchronizes across all your devices and browsers.

There are cool features like the ability to play media files, but most only work on unencrypted (unsecure) files.

You can extend that to 360 days with Extended File History (EFH), an optional paid feature

By default, the system maintains the last 30 days worth of file versions.

Secure, zero-knowledge encryption is available through pCloud Crypto, an optional paid feature.

All your data is encrypted when in transit between your devices and the pCloud servers.

Runs on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Android, iOS, and major browsers.

Here is a quick summary of the features of pCloud: For now, what you need to know is that many of pCloud’s features will only work on unencrypted (insecure) data. That’s because pCloud allows for both encrypted and unencrypted data to appear in the same account. Talking about pCloud is a little different than talking about other cloud storage services we’ve reviewed.

Extra charge for pCloud Crypto and Extended File History (EFH).

Not all features are available for encrypted data.

Data may be stored in the United States.

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