Edited the title to what the article has now.

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    … enabled-by-default

    shares your Dropbox data with OpenAI …

    … an experimental AI-powered search feature. …

    … user data [IS] shared with third-party AI partners…

    This would be more than enough reason for me to cancel and delete my account if I were still a customer.

    If you can’t trust a company with your data, then you can’t trust the company at all.

    Why do companies have to be so opaque with things? If they really wanted users to try some experimental, data-sharing feature, offer it to them as an opt-in beta feature and pay them for being a guinea pig.

    Consent with compensation is way better than non-consent with zero transparency.

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      10 months ago

      This should be justification enough for any enterprise company using Dropbox to dump them overboard