Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

Re:Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, an... by nirv on Monday January 14, 2019 @01:46PM (#18905285)

I'm concerned about the privacy of this service. Do company employees have (or are able to get) access to users' private data? Is there any data mining in use?

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Re:Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, an... by throwaway382 on Monday January 14, 2019 @02:37PM (#18905745)

They use FullStory, which probably means all employees can see your data if they wanted to. There's no option to remove it, as far as I can tell.

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Re:Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, an... by hashkb on Monday January 14, 2019 @02:38PM (#18905755)

You can use an ad blocker to block FS.

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Re:Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, an... by geekamongus on Monday January 14, 2019 @02:04PM (#18905435)

According to things I discovered on their privacy pages here:

https://www.notion.so/willchatham/Terms-and-Privacy-28ffdd08...

They encrypt your data at rest, have their stuff audited by a third party quarterly, and give the employees some amount of security training.

The thing I am curious about is that to log in, you don't have a password. Rather, then send a temporary login code to your email address. Not sure how I feel about that.

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Re:Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, an... by ralusek on Monday January 14, 2019 @02:24PM (#18905611)

It's safer than email + password. Every email + password combination I'm familiar with allows you to reset password by having a link sent to your email, which means that access to email is always considered the ultimate association of identity.

This just removes the email + password altogether and requires that you have explicit access to the email. So it takes the end-all-be-all access criteria of the other solution, but removes the possibility of them being able to have a weak password, and also removes the issue of them having to store and transport passwords.

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Re:Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, an... by innerspirit on Monday January 14, 2019 @02:32PM (#18905689)

It's less safe than email + password. Someone can break into your email with email + password, or you can forget it logged in and they have your Notion automatically, so it has the same problems email + password have, plus some more.

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Re:Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, an... by cookingrobot on Monday January 14, 2019 @04:53PM (#18906888)

How is it less safe than any service with an email based password reset option?

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