Evernote privacy update, they are reversing now the policy.
https://9to5mac.com/2016/12/16/evernote-privacy-policy-u-turn/
Even if they changed their policy, it shows that they are able to read it, and have been able to read it.
In my university, those who work in the school computer support office, whatever you call it at your school, those running the systems can read all your emails without the need for your password. In other words, those who operates Gmail.com can read your gmail openly.
Perhaps the only thing positive going on here is that maybe not ALL employees at evernote can read it, doesn't mean the ones running the database or admin can't read your notes whenever they want to. This is why I don't trust cloud computing. Your personal data that you want to keep personal, make sure it's kept offline. Right now that the only difference at evernote is that whether certain employee's account gets the check on that checkbox whether they can read your content or not. It's a matter of permission, rather than ability.
https://9to5mac.com/2016/12/14/evernote-privacy-policy-no-opt-out-employees-read-notes/
Here's the original report saying "limited subset of its employees will be able to read the content of the notes that customers have stored there. It also plainly states that there is no way for customers to opt out of this."
Some of them have already been reading your notes by now.
Reading through that article is just filled with BS.
At one point, they say "Adding to the controversy was a reference to ‘other reasons’ for staff to access notes. These include investigations into potential violations of the firm’s terms of service and compliance with warrants and court orders".
Then they say "Evernote CEO Chris O’Neill attempted to smooth the waters with a clarification stating that only random snippets would be viewed by engineers, and they wouldn’t know whose notes they were viewing. Additionally, personal data would be masked."
How would they comply with those personal data being masked? They would just unmask it. How you ask? Just another checkbox.
Then they say "We will make machine learning technologies available to our users, but no employees will be reading note content as part of this process unless users opt in."
You know what my experience is from a computer science perspective? That's just another BS. Everyone is opt-in, that checkbox you (the user) check is just for your own illusion of security and privacy. It doesn't change the fact that they have the ability to read your stuff.
Some of you guys here are programmers too. They announced this on December, and plan to have this policy up and running on January 23, so about a months time. By now, the code for this update has already been written, tested, debugged, and likely have already went live. They're just giving you (the user) a heads up on what has already been coded.
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