Dropbox Rankles Valley Orthodoxy with Rice Board Appointment - Digits - WSJ

Sign of the times

"The file-sharing startup Wednesday added former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as a director to “help us expand our global footprint.”

Quickly, an Internet protest sprang up to encourage Dropbox users to boycott the service unless the San Francisco startup forces her off its board. A new website, “Drop Dropbox,” said Rice’s role in helping set U.S. policies in Iraq, and in promoting U.S. intelligence agencies’’ surveillance policies, made her a poor fit for a startup that “we are trusting with our most important business and personal data.”"

Dropbox Rankles Valley Orthodoxy with Rice Board Appointment - Digits - WSJ