Windows 10: OneDrive Personal Vault employee access

Hi,

Does anyone know if MS support employees have access to it? This has always been my fear of using something vendor-provided. Didn't it come out recently that tech support employees had access to consumer customer's email accounts?

I have been using Boxcryptor for years, but I've always used my own key, not one stored with them. I use it for financial documents and 2fa recovery keys, QR codes, PGP stuff, etc. I would honestly feel like it was safer using OneDrive instead of Boxcryptor, which requires a third-party virtual file system driver (CBFS Connect). I think there's probably less likelihood of file corruption due to a bug or something sticking with something like OneDrive. I do worry about losing to corruption content that's encrypted by me, so I regularly copy my encrypted files from the cloud to a local location unencrypted as a backup.

I've also read that MS does automated scanning of OneDrive for illegal content, which obviously requires full access. I have searched for any sort of MS documentation that on the new Personal Vault that definitively states one way or another, but so far I've found nothing.

:)

 

OneDrive Personal Vault employee access

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/micr...ional-storage/

It's under 'Current availability':

"If you are using OneDrive’s free or standalone 100 GB plan, you can try Personal Vault with a limited number of files. Office 365 subscribers can store as many files as they want in Personal Vault, up to their storage limit."

I think this is the paid plan he's referring.

 

OneDrive Personal Vault employee access

I and other's without 365 got the 3 file limit message on activation back in September.

Personal Vault

Here's a Microsoft link that @Brink sent from that thread that's less evasive and more specific.

Protect your OneDrive files in Personal Vault - OneDrive



'Upload files or folders to Personal Vault

If you don't have an Office 365 Home or Personal subscription, you can only add up to three files in your Personal Vault. If you do have a subscription, you can add as many files as you want (up to your storage limit).'

 

OneDrive Personal Vault employee access

Hi,

Does anyone know if MS support employees have access to it? This has always been my fear of using something vendor-provided. Didn't it come out recently that tech support employees had access to consumer customer's email accounts?

I have been using Boxcryptor for years, but I've always used my own key, not one stored with them. I use it for financial documents and 2fa recovery keys, QR codes, PGP stuff, etc. I would honestly feel like it was safer using OneDrive instead of Boxcryptor, which requires a third-party virtual file system driver (CBFS Connect). I think there's probably less likelihood of file corruption due to a bug or something sticking with something like OneDrive. I do worry about losing to corruption content that's encrypted by me, so I regularly copy my encrypted files from the cloud to a local location unencrypted as a backup.

I've also read that MS does automated scanning of OneDrive for illegal content, which obviously requires full access. I have searched for any sort of MS documentation that on the new Personal Vault that definitively states one way or another, but so far I've found nothing.