Re:Dropbox - Transparency Report
by Semiapies on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @02:58AM
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Police chiefs don't usually worry about facing prison time if they reveal homicide statistics.
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But they do fear politicians kicking their ass and ruining their lives if that information cost them elections. Also, strained metaphor is strained.
Fact is, that's not a Transparency Report, it's PR Report, to make you feel better and not run away screaming. I've decided that Dropbox/Google Sync shouldn't be trusted for anything of any importance.
It's a report that spends most of its length telling you in some detail exactly what they can't legally tell you.
Considering how self-congratulatory HN readers are about this community's intelligence, you'd think more of them would be able to read between the lines.
A report telling me what it can't say is not precisely informative. Because I know that they can't tell me much about NSA.
Not to mention these two claims are contradictory:
"This report doesn't include national security requests."
"Unfortunately, the government allows services to disclose only the aggregate number of all law enforcement and national security requests received "
Does it include the NSA request, or not in the aggregate? First sentence says no, second implies yes.