OK, so Dropbox is sending user files to an third party AI system.
That resurrects some questions that I've had for a long time:
Does use of external data services, such as Dropbox, Gmail, etc, for unencrypted files risk losing or damaging patents (due to pre-issuance disclosure), trade secrets, legal privileges, medical privacy, or any other situation in which there are obligations to protect materials from disclosure?
Consider how angry a university or company could be if Dropbox caused a patent application (or issued patent) to become invalid because of improper external disclosure?
By-the-way, when I refer to encryption, I mean encryption under the control of the user/data owner so that the provider (e.g. Dropbox, Gmail) can not see anything but encrypted bits - and even that may leave sensitive source/destination information in the clear.
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