[Taek]

It's things like these that push me so hard in the direction of decentralized cloud applications. Centralized institutions should not be able to see your data, and foreign powers should not be able to command them to drop your data (or otherwise hold it hostage).

[floatboth]

But what if I specifically want to store my own personal data in a different country? I want privacy from my government, not from foreign ones!

[Taek]

I'm the case of Sia at least you will have the ability to whitelist and/or blacklist hosts on the network. Which makes it really easy to control which countries do or don't end up with your data.

[isolli]

Can you provide some recommendations?

[Taek]

Full disclosure, I am the founder of Sia, which of course is my favorite and I do believe is far ahead of all the other platforms at this time. https://sia.tech

There is also Storj, MaidSafe, Filecoin, Swarm, and sort-of-but-not-quite IPFS.

Storj and Sia are the front runners for private data like family photos, computer backups, etc. I don't really consider Storj to be decentralized here though.

Swarm I know less about, but I believe their focus is more on file sharing. IPFS is closer to a replacement for http and BitTorrent (both), great for high-demand files or files that are being explicitly hosted on a web server but not so much private data. I think they plan to upgrade this with Filecoin.

MaidSafe is 10 years old and still in alpha. They have huge ambitions but I think too huge, they don't seem capable of publishing things.