Yunio – Is It Safe?

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I have been getting a number of people sending me emails and commenting on the site asking what I think of Yunio. They seem to have a great offer of 1TB (yes 1024GB) of free storage that grows with time, sync, auto mobile backup, sharing, etc. They even got some great press from Forbes back in July that gave them some pretty nice exposure in the North American market.

 

There are some key things that people need to know and remember about Yunio though. First it is a cloud service based in China. With all the news of Edward Snowden and how people are becoming more distrustful of American based cloud services because of the NSA spying and tapping Internet backbones we all know China is doing it too. We all know it, after all they do have the Great Firewall of China and we should not be naive to think that the Chinese government is not doing the exact same thing as the Americans. If I have to choose between the Americans and the Chinese governments seeing my data I will choose the Americans.

Second, the terms of service are in Mandarin. People often don’t bother to read terms of service, but there is a difference between not reading them and not being able to read them. If you can read Mandarin and agree with the terms of service by all means go ahead and sign up but I would not recommend anyone sign up for a service that they cannot read the terms of service.

Third, if you want to sign up and cannot read the terms of service you can try running it through Google Translate. It might not give you a perfect translation but it does give you some insight into what you might be agreeing too. That being said, I find Section Eight part Six to be rather disturbing. I have mentioned this on another comment but I will post it here.

6 users should comply with relevant laws and regulations of the PRC (If you use the Service outside of the PRC, shall comply with the laws and regulations of the country or region). Users publish their digital works to ensure that there are no laws, regulations, policies illegal content PRC; absence of any breach of social customs, social ethics and morality and the general content of Internet etiquette; does not exist in any other inappropriate content. Special Tips, Users may not publish the following, otherwise the right to remove any of the foregoing cloud Connaught digital works and suspend or terminate all or part of your use of the Service:
The basic principles of the Constitution of the PRC as determined by 6.1 objection;
6.2 endanger national unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity;
6.3 leaking state secrets, endanger national security or harm national honor and interests;
6.4 incite ethnic hatred or ethnic discrimination, undermining national unity or against ethnic customs and habits;
6.5 undermine national and religious policies or preach evil cults or superstition;
6.6 spread rumors, disturbs social order or undermines social stability;
6.7 spreading obscenity, gambling, violence or instigate crimes;
6.8 insult or slander others, or infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of others;
6.9 endanger public morality or national cultural tradition;
6.10 publish any unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or digital works morally objectionable;
6.11 harm minors in any way;
6.12 impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to cloud Connaught official, forum moderators, staff, or untruthful statements or misrepresent any person or organization department;
6.13 forgery cloud Connaught official website as well as any other users of the Service in order to deceive;
6.14 would infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any person (hereinafter referred to as the “Rights”) of digital works to be released;
6.15 digital works of any advertisement or any other form of solicitation digital works to be released;
6.16 will be designed to interrupt, destroy or limit any computer software or hardware or telecommunications work any digital device function software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs, to be published;
Disrupt the normal flow of 6.17 using malicious file sharing, publishing a lot of rubbish digital works into the public storage space;
6.18 unauthorized access to computer information network, or use the computer information network resources; without the permission of the computer information network functions to delete, modify or increase; without permission, to enter the computer information network, storage, processing or transmission of data and applications to delete, modify or increase; interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers and networks connected to the service lines, or disobey any requirements of networks connected to the Service, procedures, policies or regulations;
6.19 intentionally or unintentionally violate any law in force;
6.20 collect and store personal data of other users;
6.21 Other cloud Novo considered harmful or inappropriate behavior.

Now it states if you use the service outside of the PRC (People’s Republic of China) you should follow the laws of your country. That sounds great, except the laws of my country are very different from the laws of China and it would be very easy for me to upload an image and share it with others that in my country is lawful but in the People’s Republic of China is not lawful. I have used this example before, but I will say it again, what would Yunio do if I uploaded and started sharing information from 1989 of the protests in Tiananmen Square? There is just to many unknowns about using and sharing information and how you might get you and your account in trouble.

There are other cloud backup and storage websites praising Yunio, but there are simply to many unknowns about the company and the laws of China that make it impossible for me to recommend it to anyone. If you live in China obviously your choices for cloud backup and storage are limited and in that case Yunio is perhaps a great choice, but for people outside of China I think you need to approach Yunio with a very skeptical attitude. The short answer to is Yunio safe is, in my opinion, NO. There are to many unknowns about the service and the laws where they are located.


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16 responses to “Yunio – Is It Safe?”

  1. Alejandra Avatar
    Alejandra

    A few days ago the uploads get slower but my internet connection stills the same..

    and just yestarday notice that ,I cant open myYunio account anymore. it just appears a window:
    “You have to purchase one member service to continue..”

    -.- i lost everything, at first the service supposed to be free

    Sorry for my english

    Dont use Yunio, just saying..

  2. Copperfield Avatar
    Copperfield

    Actually, they’re still advertising 1TB for free storage now, but once you sign up they tell you there are no more free storage.
    So bad there is no way to unregister!!

  3. CHRIS Avatar
    CHRIS

    free offer is gone..classic bait and switch….get you to upload several hundred gigs for “free”…then start to charge…a month ago they were advertising “free storage!!!” 1 tb !!!….now they want to charge…this does not inspire confidence.

  4. Mike Avatar
    Mike

    Free offer is gone from 1 April 2014, it says on my account :-(

  5. WILLEMIJNS Avatar
    WILLEMIJNS

    free offer is gone now

  6. F?°bio Avatar

    Ok. My bad. I do not advise Yunio right now.
    I’ve shared a folder with a friend. After a week without my friend having logged in, I un-shared the folder. What happened? I lost it.
    So… not using Yunio anymore. Back to dropbox :P

  7. F?°bio Avatar
    F?°bio

    Guys, don’t know what you have been doing to loose all those files. I’ve been using Yunio for a month now. 12,5 GB of my files. In Portugal.
    At first I had a folder sync to Yunio and Dropbox. That was a problem… Both of them were uploading and downloading files that I haven’t touched.
    After I removed Dropbox, never happened again.
    But what you say about not knowing about the company and the laws… I know it’s a messed up regime in China. But what do we know about Dropbox, for instance? Have you read the Terms? It’s basically the same.
    I sincerely have my doubts about the uses of my data in all cloud services. Even in trusty Portuguese companies. Because we never know where it’s servers are based, who the company belongs to, and what regime do they defend.
    But for now, I’m using Yunio and their 1000GB. :)

  8. Fernando Avatar

    I lost about 15 gb of music that I had sync in Yunio. Lost in the cloud and locally.

  9. od Avatar
    od

    I have been using yunio for a month.
    About 1000-1500 files, and two synched folders.

    I tried to contact their support, but the page is 100% in Chinese, so I guess they have no support in English.

    What happens is that the synching seems to be confused.
    One of the synched folders with approx. 400 files has been synching for days and days. Sometimes it has the 400 files. At this moment it has 82 files.
    Anyway, it is synching all the time!
    Back and forth, although there is no action locally.
    files are deleted (sometimes 110 at once), downloaded again.
    Files that were originally available, disappear locally and on yunio, and reappear after some day, Then again lots of files are deleted locally, then on the cloud, then from somewhere they are donw and uploaded again. Using bandwidth all the time.
    And if you need a specific file, it may be unavailable at the moment.

    I hope to get the currently 320 disappeared files back, and I will stop synching!

    1. od Avatar
      od

      Update:
      After an automatic restart (probably a Windows update) Yunio removed files from the second synched folder.
      So now there are about 50 files available on a previous total of about 1250 files.
      The files disappeared from the cloud and locally.
      I have no idea where they are now.

      Obviously yunio is downloading and uploading now. Actually it mentions only 59 files.
      I have no copy, since I never expected that synching means that the service could make confusion and remove the files!

  10. Dheeraj Avatar
    Dheeraj

    Uh.. Yunio’s 1TB is 1000 GB haha.

    1. Cloud Storage Buzz Team Avatar

      Is it? Well that is not 1TB is it. :) I never actually signed up and won’t be.

      1. WILLEMIJNS Avatar
        WILLEMIJNS

        I did. they are 9/11 services who run on this TB war… 1 russian + the rest is chinese. of course i will never let importants things on it.

        they was 3 services who was unlimited before 3/5 years ago. well known was MEDIAFIRE who changed his mind.

        lot of filelocker (AKA’s the “megaupload/rapidshare” galaxy) still do them on 2014 but every (clevel) people knows this is a funny business-plan.

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