New Privacy Policy at EverNote
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https://mspoweruser.com/evernotes-employees-can-now-read-your-notes
Evernote today announced a new privacy policy for its service — and it’s not very pretty. According to the company’s new privacy policy, Evernote employees can now read all of your notes on the service. Additionally, users can’t opt out of this scary change either.
And please note that you cannot opt out of employees looking at your content for other reasons stated in our Privacy Policy (under the section, “Does Evernote Share My Personal Information or Content?”).
Interestingly enough, Evernote says the change is to improve its machine learning technologies, stating “This is primarily to make sure that our machine learning technologies are working correctly, in order to surface the most relevant content and features to you.”
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@David-Scammell put me on to that one.
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After the change with the limits with the Sync devices I migrated from Evernote to Google Keep and Onenote.
Both are better options that Evernote right now.
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I forgot to say..
Delete the account is really complicate, you need to disable it and then contact with evernote support, but you cannot contact with support because your account is disabled.....
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@iroal said in New Privacy Policy at EverNote:
I forgot to say..
Delete the account is really complicate, you need to disable it and then contact with evernote support, but you cannot contact with support because your account is disabled.....
I think avoiding Evernote completely sounds like the right way to go here.
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I backed away long ago from Evernote. OneNote is just so much better.
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@Minion-Queen said in New Privacy Policy at EverNote:
I backed away long ago from Evernote. OneNote is just so much better.
I never found it very usable, anyway.
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They reversed the decision after the public outcry:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3151153/security/evernote-backs-off-from-privacy-policy-changes-says-it-messed-up.html -
@Nic said in New Privacy Policy at EverNote:
They reversed the decision after the public outcry:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3151153/security/evernote-backs-off-from-privacy-policy-changes-says-it-messed-up.htmlThat was fast.
Still seems like a lot of people have migrated anyway...
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@BRRABill yeah I was surprised, even impressed, with how fast they realized and corrected their mistake. They must have seen an avalanche of cancellations.
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@Nic said in New Privacy Policy at EverNote:
They reversed the decision after the public outcry:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3151153/security/evernote-backs-off-from-privacy-policy-changes-says-it-messed-up.htmlIt's only so impressive when it is because of public outcry. Of course they reversed it if customers are leaving. They didn't change it because they wanted to have a good product, they did it because they wanted to make money.
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@scottalanmiller I'm more referring to the bureaucracy and institutional inertia. Even with a huge outcry it usually takes companies a week to respond to major fuckups like this, even if they start the process on day 1.
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The only thing I can think of is that they had the retraction ready to go at the time the made the initial change.
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@Nic said in New Privacy Policy at EverNote:
The only thing I can think of is that they had the retraction ready to go at the time the made the initial change.
If that is the case, that almost makes it worse... like they wanted to see if they could get away with it, but knowing they wouldn't.
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@RojoLoco said in New Privacy Policy at EverNote:
@Nic said in New Privacy Policy at EverNote:
The only thing I can think of is that they had the retraction ready to go at the time the made the initial change.
If that is the case, that almost makes it worse... like they wanted to see if they could get away with it, but knowing they wouldn't.
Stranger things have happened
The positive possibility is that there were two factions in the company, one wanting the change and the other cautioning about the disaster. The compromise they came to was to float the balloon but have a plan b in place for disaster. The cynical possibility is what you describe; and attitude of "let's see if they buy it but if not here's the retraction". -
@Nic said in New Privacy Policy at EverNote:
@RojoLoco said in New Privacy Policy at EverNote:
@Nic said in New Privacy Policy at EverNote:
The only thing I can think of is that they had the retraction ready to go at the time the made the initial change.
If that is the case, that almost makes it worse... like they wanted to see if they could get away with it, but knowing they wouldn't.
Stranger things have happened
The positive possibility is that there were two factions in the company, one wanting the change and the other cautioning about the disaster. The compromise they came to was to float the balloon but have a plan b in place for disaster. The cynical possibility is what you describe; and attitude of "let's see if they buy it but if not here's the retraction".I view the world with cynical glasses.
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@RojoLoco said in New Privacy Policy at EverNote:
@Nic said in New Privacy Policy at EverNote:
@RojoLoco said in New Privacy Policy at EverNote:
@Nic said in New Privacy Policy at EverNote:
The only thing I can think of is that they had the retraction ready to go at the time the made the initial change.
If that is the case, that almost makes it worse... like they wanted to see if they could get away with it, but knowing they wouldn't.
Stranger things have happened
The positive possibility is that there were two factions in the company, one wanting the change and the other cautioning about the disaster. The compromise they came to was to float the balloon but have a plan b in place for disaster. The cynical possibility is what you describe; and attitude of "let's see if they buy it but if not here's the retraction".I view the world with cynical glasses.
No such thing as a coincidence, I agree!
