PRISM

[Tony Naggs]

On 7 June 2013 13:38, Mary Hawking <maryhawking at tigers.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> From the Washington Post
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-collection-docum
> ents/
> link from
> http://tinyurl.com/mm3ttqt
> Should I stop using social media and think twice about Dropbox?

It depends what you are using them for, social networks will preserve
a map of your contacts & connections and are probably trawled by the
CIA/NSA.

Dropbox have keys to decrypt your files, though they probably don't do
this in bulk - like phone call content it is only interesting to
security services or law enforcement after you appear on their radar.
You could encrypt files before storing them on Dropbox.

Cheers,
Tony