WeTransfer TOS describes that they reserve the right to derive content from whatever you upload. Oh well. It was only a matter of time.
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Wetransfer was recently bought by private equity vultures.
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WeTransfer has changed the language in the content section of the policy after acknowledging to BBC News that the previous update “may have caused confusion for our customers.” The company further clarified to the outlet that the original language was intended to “include the possibility of using AI to improve content moderation” for the purposes of identifying harmful content.
The section now reads:
You hereby grant us a royalty-free license to use your Content for the purposes of operating, developing, and improving the Service, all in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy.
In both versions of WeTransfer’s TOS, the company states that the users own and retains all the rights to their work. That should clarify and confusion that WeTransfer was trying to take ownership of the work. Although WeTransfer does have a license to users’ files, it’s for the ostensive purpose of content moderation — not to train AI models.
At this point I think it’s safe to assume anything you use with any company / service will be used in ways you might not like
So if you use google drive . iCloud , dischord, forums , WhatsApp …any loyalty card … it’s all being trawled for data in some form .
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I received something via Swiss Transfer yesterday, so I’m not readily familiar, but their ToS are favorably explicit in saying no derivative use. Please don’t take my word for it, as it was just a glance at ToS, and it’s brand new to me.
I would be interested to know if anyone sees red flags here.
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The original founder of WeTransfer is super pissed and is planning to start an alternative. You can sign up here:
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What if we just send encrypted zip files? I guess they would soon make it policy that’s not allowed
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I guess this is what you get from “free” services.
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Yep, if you aren’t paying for the product, you are the product.
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Thank you. They more than doubled my basic business plan price, that more than anything has me looking for alternatives.
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no doubt the money grubbers will run every data driven thing into the ground until we are forced to switch back to paper. then those mfers are gonna start logging businesses.
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This is why I’m a big fan of the oral tradition 
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Back to self hosted ftp servers then! 
This means we should take the habit to cypher the data we share on the cloud.
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I just took a paid Nextcloud hosting subscription, exactly to opt out of this kind of bs.
Though paying for a service certainly doesn’t guarantee being exempt of this kind of extractive practices.
Proton Drive (which also offers a free tier) and/or Proton Pass (which requires a paid tier if you want to attach any files) are great alternatives for this purpose. Unfortunately, the music world has been spoiled by WeTransfer, so that it can be rather difficult to persuade your link recipient to invest a few extra seconds into a different user interface.
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Don’t personally need their other stuff just yet but using their email service (paid subscription) and fully recommend it. Don’t imagine it’ll be too long before someone really goes after them.
You mean proton? Wasn’t there some privacy scandal involving them recently?
Was there? Haven’t heard anything, although I haven’t been looking either.