Here’s a piece of essential advice
Never trust any company with your #privacy, always #encrypt. https://t.co/X08TMfhzL6
— privacytools.io (@privacytoolsIO) December 15, 2016
If you follow the links, you end up at this CNN Tech story about Evernote changing their terms of service to allow their employees to read your notes (all in the service of improving Evernote, of course).
I love how some reporter keeps his interview notes with anonymous sources in Evernote and is now all concerned about the consequences. WHAT DID YOU THINK WAS GOING TO HAPPEN? If you’re going to store your data on a public service, it’s up to you and no one else to make sure it’s secure. Almost always this means encrypting it.
I’ve been harping on this since the days of the phony Dropbox “scandal.” See this post for links to those posts if you’re interested. Evernote, to their credit, has taken user complaints to heart and backed off their plans but this in no way excuses you from your responsibility safeguard your data. Evernote could change their mind or get sold and you’re back to having the same problem. And, of course, it’s not just Evernote. It’s every server in the cloud that you don’t control and if you really want to be safe, even the ones you do control.