However, that still doesn’t justify Dropbox’s action. In Dropbox’s defence, the data shared were anonymised before they reached Northwestern University. Here’s an article by WIRED, reporting the issue: WIRED reported that Dropbox shared user information with researchers.

If you search the web for privacy-friendly cloud storage services, Dropbox won’t make the list.Įven if it did by some miracle or probably biased reviews, it shouldn’t be anywhere in the top five.Īround 2017-18, Dropbox shared folder-level information of 400,000 users with researchers at Northwestern University. Let’s start with: Dropbox’s privacy practices

In this post, I’ll talk about why I chose Dropbox even though they don’t have a stellar reputation when it comes to privacy. Wanting to move away from Google both because of privacy issues, and horrible apps, I was looking for suitable cloud storage provider alternatives.Īfter trying out all the major players in the cloud storage field, I decided to cast my vote for Dropbox.

Dropbox smart sync taking up space