Wiretap Proponent Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board

[onehandle]

Source: The Wire

The big story out of Silicon Valley on Wednesday was that Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State under President George W. Bush, was joining the board of popular cloud storage company Dropbox.

Tucked away near the end of a Businessweek article on the startup is news of Rice taking a fourth seat on the board:

The former secretary of state’s consulting firm, RiceHadleyGates, has been advising the startup on management issues for the last year. Now she’ll help the company think about such matters as international expansion and privacy, an issue that dogs every cloud company in the age of Edward Snowden and the NSA.

You know, privacy and the NSA. The same NSA that, as Ars Technica points out, Rice herself authorized to wiretap UN officials and other domestic targets without warrants. She definitely seems like the right person to help craft Dropbox’s privacy policies.

Read more: http://www.thewire.com/technology/2014/04/wiretap-proponent-condoleezza-rice-joins-dropboxs-board/360447/

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Here's how to delete your Dropbox account, as I just did.
https://www.dropbox.com/help/43/en

Here's where to tell them why:
https://www.dropbox.com/contact

5 Alternatives to Dropbox, G+ Drive and SkyDrive
http://blog.kaspersky.com/5-alternatives-to-dropbox-g-drive-and-skydrive

[hobbit709]

1. I won't use cloud storage to start with.

[billhicks76]

11. She Should Be In Jail After Lying About 911

I am boycotting Dropbox now.

[marions ghost]

2. Oh God No

What can we replace Dropbox with?

[onehandle]

7. I added a link to alternatives to the OP. nt

[marions ghost]

9. thank you

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[geardaddy]

3. Thanks for the info.

Gonna delete my account.

[JDPriestly]

4. Please forgive a stupid question.

How can I tell whether I am a Dropbox subscriber? Is this something I would know about because I signed up for it? Or is it something that I may have been subscribed when I subscribed to something else? If so, what?

[onehandle]

8. You would have signed up for it and possibly have their software running on your computer.

You would know it.

I did. No longer.

[MannyGoldstein]

5. Well, then I'm dropping Dropbox. nt

[aggiesal]

6. I think I'll get rid of my Dropbox account. ...

What a poor move among current event techies.

[MsLeopard]

10. I'm dropping it too

Even though I love it, much better than Microsoft SharePoint..... Damn.

[Xithras]

12. So the alternatives are Google or Microsoft?

Out of the frying pan...

FWIW, Microsoft Onedrive (it's not called Skydrive anymore) kinda sucks for Android users, Sync problems up the wazoo and no security.

Guess I'll finally have to check out the Google offering.

[pragmatic_dem]

13. not everyday you can boast about a war criminal on your board of directors nt

[pragmatic_dem]

15. well, this was an easy boycott !

Condi just loaded hundreds of thousands of dead men women and children and the Iraq War into a dropbox.

One of the most cynical calculations of all time.

[emsimon33]

14. Thank you! I just removed Dropbox from my computer

and am registering a compliant with Dropbox.

The woman should be in prison as a war criminal.

[The Traveler]

16. Good alternatives!

I also find copy.com convenient ...and they support Linux. Dropbox also has good Linux support, which is why I will regret having to shut down my account. If Ms. Rice is on their board, the company can no longer be trusted with my precious data and most especially my kitteh pics.

Trav

[Supersedeas]

17. Dropbox may regret this decisions--their competitors

not so much

[Javaman]

18. Thanks for the links. I will be canceling my dropbox tonight. nt

[cntrygrl]

19. Thank you for this information.

[Jesus Malverde]

20. Just deleted my account....nt