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mu7
New member | Level 2
6 months ago

The team admin could access my private folder when I joined the team

I had a personal Dropbox account for a decade. In the last 2 years, I have been included in a team account. I remember how the system looked skecthy and not reassuring in terms of privacy after joini...
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mu7
New member | Level 2
6 months ago

You are right, but I remember reading the prompts during the merge process and I don't remember reading anything like my team admin "can access my files" at all. Isn't this important enough to be warned in the highest level? We trust on dropbox on our privacy, and this is what we get? 

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