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I'm not sure. You can easily get anonymized statistics about your whole userbase without any employee looking at a particular account directly. Getting max(size
by sz4kerto 11y ago
I'm not sure. You can easily get anonymized statistics about your whole userbase without any employee looking at a particular account directly. Getting max(size) of all the storage accounts does not require employees to look at files directly. Figuring out that someone stores 75 TB of video files does not require at all that an employee looks at a specific account.
Really, I don't want to be too snarky but this has nothing to do with privacy at all. At least try to imagine how could you do this without breaching the privacy of individual users if you were running a service like Google Drive or OneDrive -- I'm sure you will find an easy way. :) Do you really think someone actually looked at the account and added up the sizes of the video files in Excel, then wrote to his manager that 'x@hotmail.com has uploaded the whole Game of Thrones in 4K?'
- danieldk 11y agoFiguring out that someone stores 75 TB of video files does not require at all that an employee looks at a specific account. Figuring out that someone stores 75TB of video files does not. Figuring out that a small number of users backed up numerous PCs and stored entire movie collections and DVR recordings does.
- tehmaco 11y agoNot if the users used standard file extensions: Run a report that selects the top 0.01% of users by total storage used, return % of space per file extension.
- MichaelGG 11y agoNot to mention simply searching for common file names would do the trick, too. It is not too hard to come up with an algorithm that can return a boolean (or float) indicating if a file collection looks like TV series. "Game of Thrones - S??E??" is a good start.
- ant6n 11y agoI consider the file names on my hard drive private.
- MichaelGG 11y agoThen you should explicitly use a product that encrypts before upload. Again, it's not clear that a human at MS looked at anything. They could simply have run a query "does any customer have files looking like TV series".