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by Ygg2 4650 days ago
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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Semiapies 4650 days ago
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.

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Ygg2 4650 days ago
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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Semiapies 4650 days ago
Because I know that they can't tell me much about NSA.

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

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