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Dropboxes lack of transparency is particularly worrying because they have board members who support warrentless surveillance. In my mind Dropbox became a compa
by new299 10y ago
Dropboxes lack of transparency is particularly worrying because they have board members who support warrentless surveillance.
In my mind Dropbox became a company not worth supporting when Rice joined Dropbox's board (http://www.drop-dropbox.com/ http://www.drop-dropbox.com/). Personally, with a board member who advocates warrentless surveillance it seems unlikely that we share similar views on the security of my data, and I wont be using their service.
Transparency in tech companies seems even more important with a Trump administration on the horizon...
- notheguyouthink 10y ago> Dropboxes lack of transparency is particularly worrying because they have board members who support warrentless surveillance. Agreed. I switched away from Dropbox for that very reason. Granted, i'm not liking the alternatives that much. I've been planning to backup my home storage on "unsafe" providers (Dropbox/etc) after encrypting it. Just as i would with a "dumb" storage solution like S3/B2/etc. Is there anything that might make encrypted data on Dropbox/GoogleDrive less safe than the same data on S3? > Transparency in tech companies seems even more important with a Trump administration on the horizon... Heh.
- jesseendahl 10y agoI'm not sure why it's not more well known, but Dropbox's actual track record when it comes to this stuff is pretty strong. From the EFF: "Dropbox earns five stars in this year’s Who Has Your Back report. This is Dropbox’s fourth year in the report, and it has adopted every best practice we’ve identified as part of this report. We commend Dropbox for its strong stance regarding user rights, transparency, and privacy." https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-requests-2015#dropbox-report https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-reques... Full disclosure: I used to work at Dropbox.