We all share everything, whether we like it or not. Welcome to the new norm.

And why does it matter that Condoleezza Rice is on the Board of Directors?

Why would any company let someone like dropbox index all their files, and not just that but see when and how they work?
I dont think its aimed at tech companies, who would probably work through git or some git like service they self host. I think its aimed at companies who like to think they are techy and heard the word "cloud" banded about.

For years I have used FaceBook as a photo storage service. Uploading thousands of photos and videos organised into albums and accessible from any device. Simply set the album privacy to private and “walls”.
Easy and simply.

Or you could just use Google Photos across all your platforms for free.

Way to shoehorn in Condoleezza Rice. I don't see why that matters. Anyway, I used Dropbox a lot when it was new but have just not used it much. I stopped using it before they dropped Linux support and after that I tried the web interface and was like 'eh' and never looked back.

@Sunrez Exactly what I was thinking. New Atlas is always sinking.

This article just reminded me to download everything I have there and close it out. It was included with my notebook software and I think it slows things down from time to time when it updates. Haven't used it for two or three years. And as others point out - what's rice got to do with anything here? Nothing! I'd store my pics on a hard-drive here at home before I'd ever let zucker use them or some of the other popular social media companies that folks use. But that's me.

The "free" Google Photos and Zland don't store photos in their original fidelity, but reprocess them and drop the metadata. That is not for everyone.
Otherwise a nice writeup on how Dropbox is changing, with a surprising leftist tilt on that Rice comment. I find it intriguing how some people start acting hostile the moment a person of color shows some intelligence. But it's somewhat consistent when one examines who abolished slavery and made the civil rights legislation happen (and who fought tooth and nail against both).

I'm sorry the Condoleezza Rice mention has caused grief. It was intended nothing more than an interesting fact – it has no bearing on the thrust of the article. Thanks for the feedback.