Comment 2TW8 Dropbox does this too

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How one man found his private files on the Apple Cloud without his consent

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Dropbox does this too (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-11-03 08:05 (#2TW8)

I decided to give dropbox a go for its autosync feature. Worked great. Take a picture or video and the file would sync to DB if there was internet connectivity. Great. After a while I stopped using it and decided to clean up a bit. I found 1GB of personal photos had been uploaded from the SD card. WTF? I knew that new photos would sync but had no idea 1 GB of my mobile plan was blown on those photos. Luckily those days I had 3 GB quota. If it happened today I would be paying hundreds in excess data charges. The part about semi nude pictures of me being uploaded without my permission also bothers me. Now I have my own cloud.

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