Comments | daysofseptember: going into the future kicking and screaming (take 2)

daysofseptember

going into the future kicking and screaming (take 2)

Aug 09, 2014 21:59

As the owner of a phone running Windows, a laptop running Windows and a tablet hybrid running Windows, cloud storage is tightly integrated into all my my devices. Additionally, it used to be called Skydrive and I've been known to buy eyeshadow that's not necessarily flattering but has colours called "Moonstone" and "Sparkling Sea ( Read more... )

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maikichelorrain August 11 2014, 08:02:33 UTC

I don't remember the subject, but I've heard complains about Dropbox as well (I think it was also about respecting privacy but I'm no sure at all :/)

daysofseptember August 11 2014, 18:43:29 UTC

My googling seemed to suggest that Dropbox checks some... err, part of the ID of a file, to check if it corresponds to known copyrighted material. At any rate, it's an anti-piracy measure, whereas OneDrive seems to actively scan files to check for content that's against the TOS (porn, racist material etc.) Even though I don't expect they'd find anything terrible in my things, I don't fancy the idea of MS reading my private files, particularly not since the account I'm using on my main computer uses my real name.

The privacy thing is my main beef with using any cloud service, but I figured that as long as I use an anonymous account, chances are small that anyone would ever take particular interest in a few text documents saved there.