Year archive

Dropbox in 2001

1 documented issue from 2001 — most severe first.

1986 All years 2011

2001 in review

1 documented issue in 2001, concentrated in privacy & encryption concerns. The most serious was The USA PATRIOT Act: the foundation of foreign distrust of US cloud storage.

2001 onward2 sources

Medium

The USA PATRIOT Act: the foundation of foreign distrust of US cloud storage

The 2001 USA PATRIOT Act expanded US government access to records held by domestic companies and became the original reason foreign organizations distrusted storing data with US cloud providers — a concern that still attaches to Dropbox today.

Privacy & Encryption ConcernsGovernment Access & Surveillance

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