Evernote's new not-so-privacy policy will let employees read your notes

Evernote's new privacy policy is turning heads -- and users away. The note-taking app quietly announced earlier this week its intentions to update its privacy policy, which will let some of its employees access and read user content as part of the company's effort to improve the service. The company said in its proposed privacy policy, which determines what it does with its users data, including their notes, that the changes are "primarily to make sure that our machine learning technologies are working correctly." Evernote's machine learning technologies are thought to include artificial intelligence hooks, such as searching with natural language queries. The policy added that the few employees who will have access to user data will be "subject to background checks and receive specific security and privacy training at least annually."