The security brand Proton has just launched another online product aimed at securing users’ privacy. Named Proton Docs, the cloud document editing and sharing platform strives to serve as a secure alternative to existing tools like Google Docs.
Proton Docs To Serve As Secure Online Document Management Alternative
As announced in a recent post, Proton Docs is now available for users as a secure document management solution.
Proton Docs is an end-to-end encrypted platform that provides detailed document editing and sharing features. Like Google Docs, it also works in collaboration with the secure alternative Proton Drive, which stores documents.
Using this tool, users can experience all major document sharing and collaborative features, including comment additions, real-time document editing, adding photos, and storing documents safely. While all of that sounds similar to most other document management tools, Proton Docs takes the lead by encrypting users’ keystrokes and cursor movements—a key step towards protecting users’ privacy.
Besides launching this product, the provider highlighted the privacy risks associated with most existing document-sharing platforms like Google Docs and Microsoft 365. These include data collection and sharing by the vendors (with or without users’ consent), which they may further use for various purposes, such as training AI models. Likewise, the lack of encryption makes users’ documents vulnerable to data breaches, government monitoring, third-party access, and other sorts of surveillance due to weak privacy laws.
Proton Doc’s end-to-end encryption protects users from all such threats. It secures users’ data to the level of keystrokes, ensuring no third-party access, not even from the provider itself. It gives users complete control over the documents they create and store and whom they share with.
Proton Docs – like other Proton products – comes with a freemium model. Its free plan provides users with a 5GB storage, whereas pro users can subscribe to the higher pricing plans, offering 200GB, 500GB, and 3TB of storage. The two subscription plans also offer users an access to the entire Proton ecosystem.
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