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Police chiefs don't usually worry about facing prison time if they reveal homicide statistics.

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But they do fear politicians kicking their ass and ruining their lives if that information cost them elections. Also, strained metaphor is strained.

Fact is, that's not a Transparency Report, it's PR Report, to make you feel better and not run away screaming. I've decided that Dropbox/Google Sync shouldn't be trusted for anything of any importance.

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It's a report that spends most of its length telling you in some detail exactly what they can't legally tell you.

Considering how self-congratulatory HN readers are about this community's intelligence, you'd think more of them would be able to read between the lines.

[Ygg2]

A report telling me what it can't say is not precisely informative. Because I know that they can't tell me much about NSA.

Not to mention these two claims are contradictory:

"This report doesn't include national security requests."

"Unfortunately, the government allows services to disclose only the aggregate number of all law enforcement and national security requests received "

Does it include the NSA request, or not in the aggregate? First sentence says no, second implies yes.

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Because I know that they can't tell me much about NSA.

You are not the world. You are not even most Dropbox users.