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Complaint paragraph 47 alleges that use of Evernote constitutes a breach of confidentiality and fiduciary duty, which is one of those things that strikes me as "legally pretty defensible" and "totally disastrous when juxtaposed with how knowledge workers actually work."

Edit: Actually, on re-reading, they appear to mean not "Evernote constitutes a breach" but "We accessed his Evernote and his state of mind, as recorded in it, constitutes a breach." (Eek.)




I think you misread the complaint. Evernote is only mentioned as evidence of planning. The dude wrote down his todo list of copying on Evernote...


I wonder how they accessed his evernote, if it was legal to do so, and if not, whether anyone will be prosecuted (the last question is certainly no.)


Evernote client syncs locally. They performed forensics on the filesytem, and the note was more than likely cached locally on disk.

Weapons-grade stupid on VanderZanden's part.


Sounds like a great company to work for. Everyone hopes that their employer logs in and reads their personal account on evernote and dropbox.




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