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Key numbers: Microsoft 365 Personal gives you 1 TB via OneDrive for €99/year. MEGA gives you 3 TB for €99/year with zero-knowledge encryption.

The bigger difference is Copilot. Microsoft Copilot can access the files in your OneDrive to generate answers. That's not a bug, it's how the product is built. Microsoft also retains the ability to read your content for policy enforcement and legal requests.

With MEGA, files are encrypted on your device before upload, so it's technically impossible for anyone to access them, including us.

Also worth noting: Microsoft retired Defender VPN for individuals in February 2025, so that's no longer in the 365 bundle. MEGA includes a VPN on paid plans.

If you're evaluating OneDrive alternatives, the full comparison is at https://mega.io/alternative-to-onedrive?mct=jun29rd

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Instead of solving an image puzzle, some users are now asked to wave at their webcam. The system extracts 21 hand landmark coordinates (knuckle positions) to confirm you're a live human rather than a bot.

Google's position: processed in real time, never linked to your identity, deleted when the check ends. But the consent dialog in the same prompt mentions that "the information we collect will be used and stored in accordance with the Google Privacy Policy." So nothing is stored, except the information that is.

The biometric angle is where it gets legally interesting. Illinois BIPA explicitly classifies hand geometry scans as biometric identifiers, with the same protections as fingerprints. Whether transient, identity-decoupled data triggers that protection is genuinely unsettled. For now, the safeguard is a promise, not a ceiling.

What does this mean for your privacy? Is your biometric data at risk?

We fact-checked the legal angle and broke it all down here: https://blog.mega.io/google-hand-gesture-recaptcha?mct=jun26rd

Curious what this community thinks: reasonable security trade-off, or a line that shouldn't be crossed for something as routine as a login check?

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Home Customisation is a new way to personalise your MEGA app experience. Rearrange your dashboard, choose what matters most, and make your Home truly yours. 😉

How would you customise your Home?

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The question comes up a lot, so here's an honest breakdown of what MEGA actually offers for business and professional use.

A lot of cloud storage providers encrypt your data, but they also hold the decryption keys. That means they can technically access your files, and so can anyone who compels them to. MEGA works differently.

Your sensitive business files are encrypted on your device before they're uploaded, so MEGA's servers only ever store data they can't read. Only you hold the keys, you control team access, and no one else can read your data. Not even MEGA.

A few specifics for anyone doing due diligence:

• Zero-knowledge encryption: your files are encrypted on your device before upload, so MEGA never holds your decryption keys
• GDPR-consistent: designed in line with European data protection principles
• Your data stays yours: MEGA's architecture means it can never access or share your files
• Real access control: you decide who can view, edit, or share, and you can revoke that at any time

Worth being honest about the limits too: MEGA secures the infrastructure, but you're the data controller. Access management inside your organisation is on you. And whether MEGA meets the specific compliance requirements of your sector is something you'd assess for your own situation.

The blog linked below was produced in collaboration with MEGA's legal team to ensure the accuracy of all data protection.

Read here: https://blog.mega.io/cloud-storage-for-business/?mct=jun20rd

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