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===Transition to subscription based software=== | ===Transition to subscription based software=== | ||
{{Hatnote|Read More:[[Adobe Lightroom: Perpetual to Subscription Transition]], [[Adobe Subscription]] and | {{Hatnote|Read More: [[Adobe Lightroom: Perpetual to Subscription Transition]], [[Adobe Subscription]], [[Adobe CS Activation]] and | ||
[[Adobe Sued by FTC Over Hidden Fees in Subscription Plans]] | [[Adobe Sued by FTC Over Hidden Fees in Subscription Plans]] | ||
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Adobe initially distributed their software with perpetual licenses, where the user would only pay once for the right to own and use a copy of an application (or, through Adobe's Creative Suite, a collection of applications). In 2011, Adobe introduced Creative Cloud, a service that gave users access to all of Adobe's current software for a monthly fee; Creative Cloud eventually superseded Creative Suite and all of Adobe's perpetual licenses, and as of today, the only way to access up-to-date Adobe software officially is through Creative Cloud. | Adobe initially distributed their software with perpetual licenses, where the user would only pay once for the right to own and use a copy of an application (or, through Adobe's Creative Suite, a collection of applications). In 2011, Adobe introduced Creative Cloud, a service that gave users access to all of Adobe's current software for a monthly fee; Creative Cloud eventually superseded Creative Suite and all of Adobe's perpetual licenses, and as of today, the only way to access up-to-date Adobe software officially is through Creative Cloud. | ||
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===User documents forced into the cloud with no opt-out=== | ===User documents forced into the cloud with no opt-out=== | ||
Some of Adobe's iPad applications, including but not limited to digital painting app Adobe Fresco and document scanning app Adobe Scan, require an account and do not offer any option to opt out of syncing all documents created in these apps with Adobe's cloud servers. There is no end-to-end encryption, i.e. Adobe has full access to all these files. Disabling internet access makes it possible to work offline, but any files created in | Some of Adobe's iPad applications, including but not limited to digital painting app Adobe Fresco and document scanning app Adobe Scan, require an account and do not offer any option to opt out of syncing all documents created in these apps with Adobe's cloud servers. Similarly, the new non-Classic versions of Lightroom are fundamentally built around uploading all images to Adobe's cloud. | ||
There is no end-to-end encryption, i.e. Adobe has full access to all these files. Disabling internet access makes it possible to work offline, but any files created in the affected apps immediately sync to the cloud in the background as soon as the device is connected to a network again. | |||
As an American company, Adobe is subject to the [[wikipedia:CLOUD_Act|United States Cloud Act]], which requires all US companies to grant the US government access to any user data even if stored on servers outside their jurisdiction and comply with requests to help with spy operations upon request. | |||
===Spying on users' eBook reading activities=== | ===Spying on users' eBook reading activities=== | ||
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* Creative Cloud (20xx): | *Creative Cloud (20xx): | ||
* Photoshop (199x): | *Photoshop (199x): | ||
*[[Adobe Lightroom: Perpetual to Subscription Transition|Lightroom]] (200x): | |||
*[[Adobe Digital Editions' ebook DRM|Digital Editions]] (20xx): | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||