![]() ![]() Gomberg says another way his team maintains control over the content is by changing privacy settings in a Paper doc. “From a privacy perspective, it’s good because I know ‘These are the people I sent it to. I have an idea of what’s going on,” he says. “With the viewer info feature, I know who’s seen this, I know when they’ve viewed it. Gomberg adds that being able to see who has viewed a Paper doc and when it was accessed can be reassuring. “The access control features of both Paper and Dropbox in general are helpful in that regard because it’s easy for us to tell teams, ‘Okay, make sure you keep it to ‘invite-only’ access and that you don’t turn on link sharing.’ That gives you more ability to restrict content than you would have with a file living on a server.” For sensitive programs, your Dropbox team folder can be specified as “internal only.” “It lets us say ‘You can share this with these people, but when the time’s up-we’re going to cut off access,’” he explains. And having the ability to set password protection, disable downloads, and set an expiration date for shared links can help them protect information. Control access to protect privacyĪs part of the product counsel team at Dropbox, Holm says a lot of his work involves making sure there are appropriate controls in place for handling personal or sensitive information. ![]() ![]() We spoke with Peter Holm and Cody Gomberg from our product counsel team to find out how they use Dropbox to make compliance reviews less complicated. But even if the substance is different, a lot of the challenges are the same. Product counsel might have its origins in tech law, but when almost every company has an online presence, these days, they also need an in-house team that provides legal guidance.ĭepending on the industry, that can take a lot of different forms. On some level, all companies are data companies now. We collect information about people in the stores.’ So they have a lot of the same privacy issues we used to think were only relevant to internet companies. “You wouldn’t think of them as a tech company. “I was talking with a friend who is product counsel at a major retailer,” says Peter Holm, Product Counsel at Dropbox. In the age of big data, the distinction between the two is getting smaller.
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