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In fact, I am pretty sure that Dropbox set this policy back in 2011 based on this CNN article: http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/231001038/dropbox-backpedals-after-cloud-data-ownership-gaffe.htm

Mark Murphy
STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----Tim Bronski <tim.bronski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: -----
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Tim Bronski <tim.bronski@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 07/26/2013 12:33PM
Subject: Re: cloud backup services - Dropbox

I'll have to look at the Google terms again but a lot of this stuff
falls into the FUD factor that's being washed up around "cloud
services". Some of this has been brought on by the services own
mis-management of their T&Cs, Dropbox being a great example:
http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/231001038/dropbox-backpedals-after-cloud-data-ownership-gaffe.htm


For anyone interested in Dropbox's current T&C's:
https://www.dropbox.com/terms It's very clear: you own your data.

I'm not evangelizing for Dropbox or any other cloud service. Everyone
does their own homework.

On 7/26/2013 5:16 PM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:
Actually, they are not that different. I reviewed the Google T&Cs for a
customer and honestly I was interested if Agile should consider this
type of account. In the end they can still scan your data. They cannot
act on any specific items of interest they find, but the do use all of
your CRM data and email patterns to extract marketing information. That
includes any spreadsheets, documents, etc that you store there.

As to the encryption, sure it might take NSA a while to break it, maybe
even never, but every encryption has a key somewhere that has to stored
unencrypted. They find that first. The rest is easy.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 7/26/2013 9:47 AM, Tim Bronski wrote:
I think the business T&Cs are different. Nobody's suggesting you do this
with a 2Gig freebee account.

On 7/26/2013 4:23 PM, Carl J Novit wrote:
You should be very careful with anything you put on Dropbox.
Look at their T&C's. I believe they have the right to do anything they
want with data stored in Dropbox, though it would be harder to use i data
vs. PC files.

Thanks,





Carl Novit
Vice President
Extension: 7708





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