When a company receives a notice that they must share private information with a government entity, the notice is usually accompanied with a gag order that prohibits the company from mentioning that they have been forced to give up the information. I have no reason to believe that Wuala’s demise is anything more than a commercial decision by LaCie/Seagate, but I am left with no way to easily tell.Īfter all, *if* the shut down was because Wuala believed it no longer had a way to protect the privacy of users from the undue attention of surveillance agencies, how would it tell me if was also served with a gag order at the same time? TrueCrypt, and Lavabit, for instance, shut down amongst concerns that they might no longer offer the protection and privacy that users might wish for, after receiving undue interest from law enforcement agencies keen for the secrets customers protect with the services to spill out. One thing that crossed my mind for a moment, was whether Wuala might have fallen for a similar fate as other products and services which had encryption at their heart. Clearly, for whatever reason, the firm has decided to rethink its plans for offering cloud-based storage services. Wuala is owned by LaCie, who in turn were acquired by parent company Seagate in 2012.
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