Your data belongs to you — what that actually requires

Ownership versus control "Your data belongs to you" appears in nearly every cloud's marketing. Legally, it is often true. Technically, it is usually incomplete. If the provider holds the keys to your data, they hold the control — regardless of who owns it on paper.

Real control over your files requires three things: - You hold the keys. - You decide who else can read them. - You can leave with your data, in usable form.

Why control matters more than ownership Ownership decides who has the right to read a file. Control decides who has the ability. In an architecture where the provider can read your data, you depend on their good behaviour for confidentiality, even when ownership is yours.

How DRIVUNO maps to this - **Keys**: derived from your password on your device. We do not have them. - **Access**: sharing happens through recipient-keyed envelopes. We move encrypted material; we do not grant access. - **Portability**: you can export your files at any time, decrypted on your device.

The single sentence At DRIVUNO, your files are not just yours on paper. They are yours architecturally — because we cannot read them.

Ownership is not a slogan On most clouds, you "own" your data in a legal sense while the provider controls the decryption keys. That is custody, not ownership. Real ownership requires that no third party can access your data without your active participation.

The cryptographic definition of ownership You hold the only key. Your password derives it locally. The recovery key sits with you, not on a server. The provider can lose every backup and you still hold the math required to read your files.

DRIVUNO's contract with you Architecture, not policy. You leave the service and the ciphertext on our servers becomes inert — no decryption path exists. That is what ownership actually means in 2026.