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GDPR Compliance for Personal / Free Accounts
Hi, I work with various charities in the UK who often use free Dropbox accounts to share files for boards of trustees, teams etc. There is some confusion as to whether the GDPR compliance steps ...
- Hi Tom
As somebody in the UK the biggest thing you need to make sure is that the end users whos data is being stored is aware of it being stored AND that it is stored outside of the EU. Same goes if they email things in they need to know where those email servers are (e.g. Office365 = USA etc.).
They have stated it also on this forum. Here is the DPA that applies to Business accounts:
https://assets.dropbox.com/documents/en/legal/data-processing-agreement-dfb-013118.pdf
Hi aukevn and thank you for your prompt reply.
First of all it's a shame that DB staff in Italy haven't been able to provide me with a definitive answer in a week... (I'm still waiting for a simple answer YES DB BUSINESS IS OKAY, RED HERE... (url with a clear statement).
This being said, could you please tell me where actually DB states (just) that DB Business service is GDPR compliant?
The only resource I've found is this:
https://help.dropbox.com/security/standards-regulations
which is lost in a webpage no regular italian user could ever find...
Thank you again, cheers
Here on the forum they state it and I got an email (after askin about 5 times I finally got a clear answer)
Haven't found it anywhere else.
This is really unfortunate and upsetting. Let's hope they state it clearly soon. Cheers
So, all these stuff, cookies, GDPR, they will make life harder for small sites, the big ones - Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox - all they ignorantly simply don't give a [profanity removed by Moderator]....Take a look for Dropbox - even the cookie consent is not by the rules - by the law before dropping a cookie on your computer, you should aggree specifically (not passive, by simply move on site) and to have an option to continue using a site without any restrictions. Also you must have an option to turn off tracking for non-esential cookies and etc....As can see - noone of this has been implemented and I doubt it will be...
