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Posted by dan7000
Feb 8, 2017 at 06:10 PM
Paul Korm wrote:
>Milanote’s privacy policy is also quaint: “There are only two people at
>Milanote who have access to the production database, and we have strict
>policies to prevent them from accessing user data.”. It’s somewhat
>hard to believe in things like that.
>
Totally agree. And yet isn’t this basically what we get with nearly all web-based services? Pick your app, big or small: Dropbox, Google Drive, Gmail, RememberTheMilk, Evernote, Salesforce, Trello, Workflowy ...
Aren’t they all just saying: “trust us, we won’t access or sell your data?” (Except Google which says “trust us but we will sell your data anyway”) Even WhatsApp revealed that it can, in some circumstances, access user data. It all comes down to how much you trust the company. The only systems that really can’t access your data are zero-knowledge systems, and even then, you have to trust the company to have implemented zero-knowledge correctly.