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Should be ok for encrypted backups. I wouldn't trust a British company with anything sensitive, given their government's policy on privacy.

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OVH is a french company, if you read their terms the contract is between you and OVH France.

Ok, thanks, assumed it was British because the prices were in pounds on linked page. EDIT: And now I see they were in euro, not my best day.

yes, but where the equipment is physically located is often of the most importance.

Indeed, in that case all three data centers are located in france. [0]

> The hubiC infrastructure is made up of 3 server pools, each one with several hundreds of servers and physically hosted in 3 geographically distant OVH datacentres: two in the north of France and one in the west.

[0] https://hubic.com/en/data-security

Are France any better? they outlawed encryption long after the Americans had given up on it.

Probably not, just trying to keep the facts straight. Offsite backups should always be encrypted on the client side, so it doesn't really matter where the provider is located or if it's trustworthy. (except for things like reliability / retrievability).

Can't disagree with that.

That is quite an outlandish statement, encryption is absolutely not outlawed in France.

The government is however, currently brewing an awful local version of the Patriot Act just as the US seems to be dismantling it.

Please read the history of encryption, France outlawed it for many years and then in the start only allowed weak encryption.

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