Work Files in a Personal Cloud Are How You Donate a Lawsuit

The photos app feels harmless

You scanned a contract at lunch. Now a personal vendor has a work record, and your phone backup does too. Convenience is how retention policies die.

Leaving the job does not unsync the phone. That is the sequel people skip.

From the record

If you would not forward it to a Gmail you do not control, do not Drive it to a personal login.

GUIDEORA rule for work-on-personal

The split

Work laptop, work identity, work cloud. Personal laptop, personal cloud. If you must cross, use the vendor the company named. Encrypted personal Drive is for tax PDFs you own, not the customer list.

• Share links from personal accounts are extra keys.
• A lost personal phone with work PDFs is two incident reports.
• E2EE does not equal approved.
• We are not telling you to hide files from your employer.

Proton Drive as the personal side

Proton Drive currently fits a personal privacy threat model: you, your taxes, your family photos. That is the example. It is still the wrong bucket for files your job already has a bucket for.

If your company forbids personal cloud, that policy wins. This article will not override it.

Two logins. Two threat models.

Keep work in work. Proton Drive is the personal encrypted example. GUIDEORA is not your employer.