Comment by strickjb9 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by strickjb9 | Hacker News Reader

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Is this typical of cloud storage? I read through their ToS and found that they retain the right to access your files.

5.2.Our Right to Access Your Files. You give us the right to access, retain, use and disclose your account information and Your Files: to provide you with technical support and address technical issues; to investigate compliance with the terms of this Agreement, enforce the terms of this Agreement and protect the Service and its users from fraud or security threats; or as we determine is necessary to provide the Service or comply with applicable law.

Tarsnap doesn't do that, but other cloud storage providers seem to--like, say, Dropbox: https://dl.dropbox.com/s/3vyon6umixkxu02/Dropbox%20Terms%20o...

What the hell, never knew about this:

  Consent to Access Your Files 
  BY UTILIZING THE SITE, CONTENT, FILES AND/OR SERVICES, 
  YOU CONSENT TO ALLOW DROPBOX TO ACCESS YOUR COMPUTER 
  TO ACCESS ANY FILES THAT ARE PLACED IN THE 'MY DROPBOX',
  'DROPBOX' FOLDERS, AND/OR ANY OTHER FOLDER WHICH YOU
  CHOOSE TO LINK TO DROPBOX.

Is this intended for the program to access the files and send them to the server? Or does this mean the bad thing, that nothing is really private?

Read it again, you will see that "Your computer" is then limited to "Files placed in" a certain location.

This is required for their service to work ...

I see the difference between Dropbox and Amazon terms, but I cant avoid asking myself If legally they are just the same.

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