Filewatch

Find your public files, before someone else does

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Find your public files, before someone else does

4 followers

Filewatch is a free tool which scans your Google Drive and displays all of the files which are publicly available (shared with anyone on the web or anyone with the link). After scanning the files, Filewatch displays a list of the files which are publicly available. You can then review them and change the sharing settings if necessary.

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Productivity•Privacy

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Jeppe Vestergaard Jensen

It seems strange that I should allow an app into my Drive to see if my privacy settings are good enough? Or?

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7yr ago

Alex Cason

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@jeppevjensen I can appreciate that it requires a certain degree of trust to use Filewatch, but that's something in common with every third-party extension that requires access to Google Drive and there's no getting around that I'm afraid. It would be better if Google Drive offered this functionality itself, but the reason why I made Filewatch is because it doesn't and I believe that it can help people to keep their files secure. I've done as much as I can to respect the privacy and security of users when they use Filewatch. It requests the minimum possible access to your Google Drive in order to determine which files are publicly accessible and I developed it entirely as a client-side application so that no information about the files is sent to a server, it stays on your computer the entire time. If you have any suggestions for how I can provide more reassurance to users then I'd gratefully accept them, as I can appreciate the concern.

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7yr ago

Jeppe Vestergaard Jensen

@alexcason4 Hi. Yes, I understand it's quite normal for programs like this. But I couldn't find any information about what you do with the collected data. A question I would like to be answered, do you sell my data as a payment for your free service? Unfortunately, there's often no information about the use of the data collected by the apps and programs. So if I should let your program into my Drive it would require more information about the use of my data. Don't get me wrong, I think your app is a good idea and have a purpose.

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7yr ago

Alex Cason

Crowd Sound

Maker

@jeppevjensen In addition to text on the page saying 'No information about your files is stored on the server' there is also the privacy policy which goes into further detail about what data is collected. However, If it's not clear to you then it obviously needs to be a bit more prominent, especially as it's one of the main concerns when deciding whether to use Filewatch. I'll have a think about how to improve that. Thanks for the feedback!

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7yr ago

Timur Badretdinov

Like that Filewatch is fast and super simple. Regarding trusting to the service, as far as I understand, you give access only to the metadata and not the content of the files themselves, so seems quite private to me.

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7yr ago

Alex Cason

Crowd Sound

Maker

@jeppevjensen @wwgene Based upon your feedback I've written an article outlining how Filewatch handles data to keep it private and secure. I've added it as a link prominently on Filewatch and it's also available to read here: https://medium.com/filewatch/how... I hope it goes some way towards reassuring you and other users with valid concerns. Let me know if you have any feedback.

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7yr ago

Filewatch

Find your public files, before someone else does

Find your public files, before someone else does

Filewatch

Find your public files, before someone else does

Find your public files, before someone else does

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