NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden caused a flurry of controversy when he advised consumers to “get rid of Dropbox” if they want to protect their privacy. Today, Drew Houston, CEO of the cloud storage startup, made a direct response to the accusations. He said, people can do more to encrypt their data, he admitted, but It’s “a tradeoff between usability/convenience and security". The comments, made by Houston on stage today at the Dublin Web Summit, come as a director at the UK’s GCHQ published an essay on terrorism, social media and government access to data, “We offer people choice".
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