[Development] Privacy of Qt Cloud Services (developer access to user data)

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 09:38:32AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> On the Qt Forum I raised a question about security/privacy of user data
> on Qt Cloud Services.  As far I can tell any data from my users on my
> cloud instance can be read by me, the developer.
> 
> My example was a diary app, where users don't want me to know who
> they're in love with or their other private entries.
> 
> If the Cloud Services do indeed work that way, then that could be a
> problem which we'd need you, the developers to think about.
> 
there is no alternative to "working this way". if you want data to be
opaque to the server admins, use end-to-end encryption, with the keys
available only to the user.

> So I've sent this message to you to invite you to comment or join in the
> discussion at http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/41631/
> 
> Thanks,
> Drew
> 
> 
> 
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