Ask HN: Are you using Notion and its recent Notion AI feature? I've been a long-time user of Notion (the free plan). I've used it to store personal (not too personal) documents such as tech notes, grocery items, blog snippets, quotes from books i've read, etc. Recently I started using it at work as well to store notes from meetings, logging my work journal, my to-do list, and other elements as well (like a scratchpad). Notion has been approved by our security team, and it was important that we don't put any company-confidential information in our notes (which I avoid doing at all costs). I wanted to activate the Notion AI feature today (as I received an email that i'm off the waitlist). I started reading AI program terms[1], which led me to the Master Subscription Agreement[2], which also led me to the Data Processing Addendum[3]. The following paragraph (in [1]) captured my interest:
What does it mean for Notion to process our input (customer data) to help its AI? How safe is this? What do you think of it? Would you use it given how these terms are coined?I continued reading the Data Processing Addendum[3] and also noticed the following paragraph in the Data Use and Processing section:
How do you think Notion processes Customer Personal Data for its "Business Purpose"? I couldn't find any detailed explanation of the "Business Purpose" in the Master Subscription Agreement[2] or Personal Use Terms of Service[4] or Data Processing Addendum[3].[1] https://www.notion.so/Notion-AI-Program-Terms-c0066e3003904176bb50b9f7c16164b9 [2] https://www.notion.so/Master-Subscription-Agreement-4e1c5dd3e3de45dfa4a8ed60f1a43da0#ab40a767dcd04b10b58512a964b928f0 [3] https://www.notion.so/Data-Processing-Addendum-361b540101274b1fa7e16b90402b0d99#cfce81e82e31431d9a2cfe87699f7710 [4] https://www.notion.so/Personal-Use-Terms-of-Service-00e4e5d0f2b9411cbee6493f15779500#4c8b3847a1874ce7abcef66829ca71e4 PS: anyone else finds it quite difficult to read terms of use and agreements like this? The legal-speak is sometimes quite difficult to decode/find the meaning between the lines. |