Evernote believes that some of its employees need access to your content in order to continue to make the product great.

In all seriousness, this is real and happening on January 23.

Thanks, I’ll strongly consider that option! So really, do I have any options at all then to not allow Evernote employees access to my notes stored on their service? So I can opt-out of machine learning, but I “cannot opt out of employees looking at content for other reasons.” What…the… What if I really don’t like this change and like my private documents remaining private? Can I opt-out of machine learning that is really partially human learning? Will it stay small or will it grow as is needed? Which employees get to look at my stuff, though? Are we talking all employees or just the people Evernote has hand-selected that I don’t know but am now supposed to trust?Īhhh, so Evernote keeps the list small. OK, so Evernote’s version of machine learning involves humans doing manual work and invading privacy of customers. Once that happens, and you potentially decide that you aren’t a fan of Evernote employees viewing the items you have saved to their service, you have some options!īut first, let’s look at what’s changing, according to Evernote.

The new privacy policy goes into effect on January 23, in case you were wondering. In the newly minted privacy policy, Evernote admits that if you use its service, its employees have the power to view your un-encrypted content “for the purposes of developing and improving the Evernote service.” Let me say that again – Evernote employees can look at your content because you have chosen to use Evernote. Evernote, the popular note-saving platform that has gone through some major changes in recent years, like most recently limiting basic accounts and raising prices, issued a privacy policy update this week that is rightfully raising some eyebrows.

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