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Data locality regulations

That's not why TS makes this recommendation. Rather: campaigns are almost universally dependent on GSuite anyways, Google has a fantastic security team and while Dropbox's has gotten better in the last few years it's still not Google, it's much easier to accidentally copy sensitive stuff into a Dropbox folder than a GDrive folder, Google Drive works especially well with Google's cloud document viewers, which is important for other reasons, and you might as well just have one cloud dependency, not several.

Also, if you use GSuite, you can notify Google that you are running for elected office and they will do extra monitoring of your GSuite account and notify you if people try to hack it.

There's still a non-zero risk of Google arbitrarily locking the account, leaving you without access to your documents, spreadsheets and presentations in Google Docs.

When that happens to a major party political campaign, I'm sure people will update the advice they're giving major party political campaigns.

Cold comfort for the affected campaign(s) though...

To make this an interesting comment you have to address the trade off between using PCs and Office software and whatever Larry sets up to store and share files and Google's stuff, and then make a convincing argument that Larry is better than Google.

For progressive or moderate candidates, sure.

However, given events like this: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/406437-google-execs-la...

Any conservative Republicans running in 2020 would have to be morons to trust their entire communications infrastructure to a company who openly opposes their policies.

(Cue jokes about how the 2nd half of that last sentence is redundant...)

I disagree, you still have to make a convincing argument that Google is more likely to risk ruining a whole bunch of their business than Larry is likely to screw up.

Many people use Gsuite logins to authenticate to Dropbox, so if Google locks out those accounts they lose Dropbox too.

I’m not really seeing how that factors in for Americans. 100% of Dropbox data is hosted in USA.

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