A few hours ago the news sprouted on the network of networks to let us understand that due to a change in Evernote's privacy guidelines that will take effect from January 2017, any company employee could take a look at all the notes you have in this app so special for that purpose .
For anyone who values their privacy, it is something that cannot be understood, but the company has its explanation and it goes very related to «machine learning». The company maintains that this change is due to ensure that its “machine learning” technology will be working correctly in order to show the user the most relevant content.
From what you can understand that change in an Evernote that is preparing to reveal more relevant content and features depending on what you have stored in those hundreds of notes. The idea is that it does not explore that data and then use it for advertising ads.
In fact, the problem is that any Evernote employee I would be able to take a look to everything you have written in your Evernote. At the very least, we have a way to prevent it if you follow these steps below:
- The first thing is to log into your account from the web version Evernote from here
- The option we are looking for it's only on the web and not at all in the mobile version.
- We go to Settings which is right in the yellow icon in the lower left corner
- Now we go to Personal settings and at the end of all we will find the option «Improved experience»
- We deactivate «Allow Evernote to use my data to improve my experience »
- Click on Save and ready
Evernote has made some tough decisions this year, as was that of the restriction to two devices in the free accounts in which we can have all the notes synchronized.