When Dropbox changed their terms of service last summer there was a glaring increase in their emphasis on the use of the word stuff. Stuff appears eleven times in the revised guidelines, including a whole section called “Your Stuff & Your Privacy”–yes, gross.  Those guidelines got a lot of attention for being vague enough to be alarming though maybe legally necessary sounding enough to be understandable. But the use of stuff  was definitely a reason to feel like some things were being glossed over.

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