Starting Next Year, Evernote Employees Could Access Your Unencrypted Notes (betanews.com)

Mark Wilson, reporting for BetaNews: Evernote has published an update to its Privacy Policy, revealing that as of 23 January 2017, employees will be able to access unencrypted notes. The change is being wheeled in because of the apparent failings of machine learning. Perhaps more worrying is the fact that Evernote says that it is not possible to opt out of having employees possibly accessing your unencrypted notes. The only way to fully protect your privacy is to delete all your notes and close your Evernote account. The update to the Privacy Policy starts off sounding fairly innocuous: "The latest update to the Privacy Policy allows some Evernote employees to exercise oversight of machine learning technologies applied to account content, subject to the limits described below, for the purposes of developing and improving the Evernote service."

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Re:Well they made my decision for me

[Overzeetop]

If you believe them - and since you can't audit their code personally you shouldn't - then they cannot decrypt your encrypted notes without brute forcing it. They claim not to store you key: https://help.evernote.com/hc/e... You have to decide whether or not to believe them.