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I know that last time these were posted, many were unimpressed because of the NSA backdoor into unencrypted traffic between data centers. Still, it's interesting to see how much more detailed their report is than either Facebook or Google's. I hope this pushes the others to expand their previous (extremely vague) disclosures.

For comparison with Dropbox on the effect of crypto, check out SpiderOak's report:

https://spideroak.com/blog/20130404171036-increasing-transpa...

Anyone want to create a Privacy Service that keeps, collates & updates these reports as they change? It could be useful for the companies themselves so that they could update language to 'industry standards' and otherwise watch how their peers keep up with both the law and the public.

Sounds a lot like what https://tosback.org/ intends to accomplish, only slightly different targets.

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