A little while ago, DropBox changed their terms of service to update it with a few things. One of them being government taps. Lots of companies and consumers are concerned with the NSA sniffing data they shouldn't be snooping in on. As apart of this concern, DropBox has released a new agreement for their users. They have sent emails to their current users that is as follows as below (part of it):
If you click the link "Government Data Request Principles", then you will notice near the bottom it states the below image:
"Governments should never install backdoors into online services or compromise infrastructure to obtain user data".
This is great news because this means the NSA cannot install backdoor taps into DropBox in order to clamp down on people who may be using DropBox for legit reasons. If you upload just normal documents, they COULD sniff it and just read what it contains. This isn't right because people have a sense of privacy when they do this and by installing backdoors and reading this content it breaks that sense of privacy.
Of course this doesn't apply to people who use DropBox for illegal reasons. The government can still file a government subpoena and gain access to your data. DropBox has to provide them with the data because of the subpoena.
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