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Yet another post for cloud storage suggestions.
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Why does that need to be cloud storage at all? Off-line storage is the securest option, so you need a very good reason to want to put it online.
16 GB USBs are a few dollars each, buy a bunch, store duplicates across the USBs. Make sure you plug them in an use them once a month, and that will easily last you all year. And if you need to give it to your healthcare professional, just give them the USB.
Good luck on your weightloss!
I second this. Local is the way to go for medical information.
I always recommend remaining highly skeptical about apps promising to help with anything like this. There were period tracking apps sending women's period information to data broker companies, who would then sell it onward. That's creepy as hell! Doing everything locally avoids intrusive data collection.
On the period front: https://bloodyhealth.gitlab.io/ Open source, funded by the EU, and private.
I also wrote one for my partner, but it's gone because google sucks and killed my dev account.
This is all true. Unless someone breaks into your home to physically steal your data, offline backups will always be more secure than anyone's cloud.
I've thought about keeping a copy of my own assorted data on a hard drive in a safe deposit box, though i don't know how much that would cost. If you're really worried about people getting into these anyway, there are ways to protect entire drives with a password.