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Re:Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to... by hedora on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @01:13PM (#38631584)
Doing this without opt-in should be illegal.

We need blanket minimum privacy protections at a national level, and they should treat internal repurposing of data the same as third party sharing.

Since all major players in our industry have shown they can’t be trusted to curate large collections of sensitive data, inclusion in such internal datasets should be opt in as well.

Dropbox is a poster child for “this should be E2E encrypted”, so, yes, I’m arguing they should get your explicit opt-in before they are allowed to store unencrypted data or escrow keys on their end, and that the opt-in shouldn’t be required to use their services.

Re:Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to... by VWWHFSfQ on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @01:27PM (#38631855)
> Dropbox is a poster child for “this should be E2E encrypted”

how would you implement some very trivial features like even being able to search though

Re:Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to... by rvnx on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @01:38PM (#38632070)
At least basic encryption. Remember one day, Dropbox forgot in production to check passwords of users. So you only had to enter email to access the Dropbox of the user (an open "log as" feature).
Re:Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to... by ginsbergjason on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @01:42PM (#38632146)
Thats crazy, do you know if there's an article about Dropbox breaking auth? Don't remember hearing about it.
Re:Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to... by rvnx on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @01:50PM (#38632276)
Re:Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to... by YetAnotherNick on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @01:40PM (#38632108)
What do you mean by "basic encryption". Either dropbox could access our files or it couldn't without authentication from us. If it couldn't how would search or indexing work.
Re:Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to... by jbverschoor on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @11:42PM (#38637861)
Or the time when they simply sent your complete file structure to some random company without any consent or information?
Re:Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to... by PeterisP on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @02:16PM (#38632669)
I've used Dropbox for 13 years and I have never noticed that they have a cloud search feature, nor have I ever needed that. It syncs to my machines where I have my local search working in the exact same manner as for non-Dropbox data - why does Dropbox need a special search, one where they would search my unencrypted data?
Re:Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to... by ginsbergjason on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @01:41PM (#38632119)
we've implemented E2EE search (and pretty much every feature you would expect) on https://skiff.com/drive
Re:Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to... by drstewart on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @02:07PM (#38632553)
are you pledging to make every new feature that's ever developed opt-in on risk of jail time for you personally?