beware sending an online fax—it might not be as private as you think

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“Gizmodo identified three separate commercial cloud storage servers containing, in total, hundreds of thousands of faxes from various online services, exposing a vast array of private information. The documents included insurance claims— invoices, government forms, family photos, checks, prescription information, bank account details, and Social Security numbers—were all available for the public to download for years.”