A new personal cloud project has been launched by Canadian entrepreneurs called cDox. In a world of increased need for data and digital sovereignty, they've taken up a mantle of running a cloud based host of collaborative documentation writing tools (think Google Docs). Their goal is to offer the hosting from Canada, with data stored in Canada and so on.
https://www.cdox.ca/ (not linked because I'm discouraging its usage)
It's a cool project and the motivation is beautiful (for friends and family), but journalists, lawyers and healthcare providers (mentioned on the site as target audiences) are NOT going to take an interest in sending their data to some random guy's cloud, nor would I for that matter. There are going to be so many standards and regulations/compliances to achieve to qualify any cloud solution first before the suggested uses are possible, like ISO/SOC-2 standards, data retention policies, GDPR (for EU collaborations), PIPEDA, PHIPA etc.
Besides, people can already write and save locally, or to their company's legally approved file shares, or home NAS, or get their own NextCloud instance hosted in Canada or Europe for doc sharing.
As for the branding, "dox"ing is a serious issue and naming your service "dox" just isn't good for mindshare. It's very anti-privacy in its suggestion.
And finally, we can have the cloud at home, via NextCloud: https://nextcloud.com/office/ . You can host this software yourself or get it turnkey activated at a registrar+web hosting company. Or you can use the suite of email/storage/vpn/document collaboration tools at https://proton.me .
cDox just isn't necessary, secure nor valuable. It's dangerous to start sending your data to perfect strangers you heard of yesterday, and it won't achieve the complexity of legal frameworks and compliances to be business-ready anytime soon.
By Ariella on Powermac G4 with Mac OS X 10.5.8 and Adobe GoLive CS
