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But dropbox already has huge amounts of information about you, in particular the names, contents, and history of all of your files.
by CJefferson 4y ago
But dropbox already has huge amounts of information about you, in particular the names, contents, and history of all of your files.
- zorked 4y agoThey have consent for that. It's not hard. Also consent to store does not imply consent to read, process, make use of.
- NoZebra120vClip 4y agoI keep searching xkcd, but all my efforts are frustrated, and this is as close as I get: https://xkcd.com/908/ https://xkcd.com/908/ I distinctly recall a webcomic in the past few years lampooning cloud storage. There was a guy who said "hey, there's this guy down the street who lets me keep stuff on shelves in his garage." "What does he charge you?" "Nothing, he says it's just cool if I keep it there." and then the stuff is sold off or tampered with, the guy is irate, and the moral of the story is essentially "why did you trust a random guy with a garage to keep your stuff?"
- zamnos 4y agohttps://xkcd.com/1150/ https://xkcd.com/1150/ ?
- NoZebra120vClip 4y agoTHANK YOU, zamnos! No wonder I couldn't find it. It was a current-events piece about a change in Instagram's TOS. Explanation here: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1150:_Instagram https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1150:_Instagram
- Dylan16807 4y agoBut also the comic as you remembered it has a different moral from the actual comic, and would be very insulting to apply to non-paying dropbox users. It's okay for a free service to change how they operate with a take-it-or-leave-it offer. It is not okay for a free service to invade your privacy without permission. Additionally, all users should be able to trust Dropbox just as much as the paying users.