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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).
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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.
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Re:Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to... by rvnx on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @01:50PM (#38632276)
https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/dropbox-confirms-security-...
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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.
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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?
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