[Bradford] Dropbox

[David Bolton]

I seem to remember that on the original NSA PRISM slides Dropbox was 
name-checked as being next on the target harvest list.  The slides were 
a couple of years old - so by the time they were leaked, last summer, 
Dropbox may well have been in the basket.

The statement is good, but I'm actually wondering why it has taken 
Dropbox this long to respond.  What has been going on in the background, 
I wonder ;-)

Dave B

On 22/02/14 09:15, David Spencer wrote:
>> I'm probably being extremely naive, but I was quite impressed by Dropbox's
>> revised terms/position, circulated today.
>>
>> At least they are saying all the right things:
>>
>> https://www.dropbox.com/transparency/principles
> Interesting!  They are certainly good at plain language, and it's
> great to see best practice stated in plain language. Thanks Paul for
> pointing us to it.
>
> More than almost anyone else, Dropbox's business depends on users
> being able to trust cloud storage -- any stampede away from them and
> it's game over.  So this is that rare case where the best interests of
> the business and of the consumers coincide, and here's the result,
> which is nice.
>
> Having said that, they know, and we know, that the "authorities" have
> plenty of other options, if they want some particular information
> badly enough.  But this disincentivises mass surveillance, and that's
> always a good thing.
>
> Tarra
> -D.
>
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