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Comment by ciarannolan | Hacker News Reader

Does Notion have access to the content of my notes if they're compelled to produce them?

Do employees have access to the content of my notes?

Notion employees are only allowed to access your workspace data with your written consent. We are also only allowed to do this in order to facilitate an improved user experience for you (e.g. debug problems you have asked support about, etc).

We are working on updating our T&C and Privacy Policy to make this more clear, but it is rigorously practiced internally already.

We do not yet have end-to-end encryption, or other encryption functionality that would make it technically impossible to access your data. We would love to do this at some point but it will be difficult because our permission model is quite complex!

Thanks for the reply, Jamie, much appreciated.

I would definitely pay for an E2E encrypted Notion.

Thanks for raising the concern! We'd love to have that too at some point.

Ditto. Also I'm a big Notion fan but there is no way certain stuff I work on can be on it, or I can recommend it to many people doing sensitive things. Which is a pity. Notions security is its biggest flaw. Also the lack of proper two factor in the modern age is silly.

I'm curious. Why the need for E2E?

I tend to use these platforms to organize my personal life and thoughts. Sharing that information in any way with a for-profit company is a non-starter for me. "Trust us, we care about your privacy" isn't good enough for me.

I would recommend looking at Standard Notes. It's paid only but it's so worth it.

> Notion employees are only allowed to access your workspace data with your written consent. We are also only allowed to do this in order to facilitate an improved user experience for you (e.g. debug problems you have asked support about, etc).

Do you have technical controls in place to prevent this access, or is it more of a policy?

Yes they do. Read the T&C.

Was hoping for an answer from someone at Notion rather than "read a 50 page legal document", but thanks.

Good thing that you got exactly what you wanted.

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