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Well, congrats to them for doing it. All they had to do to get there was bring a Bush admin war criminal on board. Hurray for state surveillance!

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So adding an ex-government official to the board automatically means Dropbox is surveilling you? How does that logic work?

When the official has advocated heavily for it, yes that's probably safe to assume

http://www.drop-dropbox.com/surveillance.html

What kind of relationship do you think the person in question has with the current federal intelligence community?

Stellar, considering she spearheaded the warrantless wiretap program.

I downvoted your first post because, much as I dislike Condoleezza Rice, what on earth does that have to do with an IPO? Even putting aside that it was factually wrong (no, her joining isn't "all they had to do", they have 10 years of work to show for it).

I downvoted your second comment because it's complaining about downvotes, and is making the completely incorrect (and really quite narcissistic) assumption that you getting downvoted means surveillance/privacy has lost priority.

Here's your context.

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