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Why is there only one "iCloud" to backup your iPhone and store photos? Lots of ADP users would use a corporate or self-hosted solution instead.

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As far as I know you can still opt to backup your entire iPhone to a local computer instead of iCloud.

You can also manually transfer photos to the computer. Or you can enable a different app (Google Photos or Dropbox for example) to store copies of every picture you take, and then turn off iCloud Photos.

Note that neither Google nor Dropbox are E2E encrypted either though.

What would you recommend as a DIY method?

I have a NAS that is accessible through VPN. But I don't trust its encryption, thought it is in my controlled location.

Doing it locally doesn't really help. The RIP bill can force you to disclose your own encryption keys to the UK government, and if you "forgot them" you can be put in jail as if you were convicted of whatever they're accusing you of.

That's why cloud backup was useful.

[edit: actually I mis-remembered this, it's "only" 2 years (or 5 if it's national-security-related) that they'll jail you for. "Only" carrying a lot of water there...]

For this you can use truecrypt nested containers, so it will reveal data depending on your given password and there is no way to prove there is something else in the container.

To be fair this should be standard.

The simplest arrangement for me was to have the device back up to my Mac, and then said Mac has Time Machine set up to back up to the NAS. iOS and Mac local backups can be encrypted by the OS itself.

because Apple privacy is just marketing, they just want you to pay for it, they don't really care if it's possible to do better for free / by others

The reason is that Apple was never required by UK law to offer any alternative. I think the DSA intended to challenge that, but it would do nothing for UK residents.

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