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We blog about many different topics. Sometimes this is news on things that happen on Kopano, or simply something that we felt was interesting to share about how our teams work. Our blogs also reflect on tech- and non-tech news that relates to us or affects us. Stay tuned!

App Developers Can Read Your Email. Now What?

At the beginning of this month, WSJ announced that third-party app developers can read the email of Gmail users. According to Google, we, users, have given […]

July 31, 2018

3 Things To Consider Before Moving To The Public Cloud

Last week we were scared twice: Google reads our emails and with Microsoft Office365, users can be monitored. I was surprised that apparently there are companies […]

July 11, 2018

Usage Data Collection: Yes or No?

Everyone collects data. Then why do many of us think it’s perfectly ok if Canonical collects data but are upset when Microsoft and Google do so? What is your opinion on usage data collection? What is acceptable and what is not?

March 6, 2018

Your Data, Not Your Terms

Giants of the software industry like Microsoft have control over our data and use it to make money. As long as you trust a cloud provider with your data, your data privacy is not guaranteed. Therefore, you have to decide. Either you benefit from the insights provided by them and accept that your data is being stored and used by others. Or you stay in control of your data by self-hosting your software.

February 7, 2018

Kopano Signs Open Standards Manifesto for Suppliers at ECP Annual Conference

  Last week, Kopano’s CEO Brian Joseph signed the open standards suppliers manifesto of the Standardization Forum at the ECP Annual Conference in The Hague, The […]

November 21, 2017
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Kopano and Experts Say GDPR Will Increase Gap EU-US Privacy Laws

Today, Kopano published a whitepaper by open source specialist Dan Shearer and an interview with ICT lawyer Arnoud Engelfriet, on the impact of GDPR on the US and EU Cloud.

November 16, 2017
Data Transport Security with Kaopano

Data Transport Security with Kopano

As we all know, communication-related data – especially in corporations – belongs to the most sensitive of all information groups. The newly surfaced KRACK attack brought […]

October 18, 2017

2016 – The year of the fork

In May 2016 something really great happened: After years of hard work we finally launched Kopano, a new system bringing intuitive communication tools together in one […]

December 15, 2016