Dropbox intended to make headlines after introducing Carousel, Dropbox for Business, and the Mailbox app expansion on Wednesday. But the cloud storage company probably didn’t expect those headlines to be about another news item altogether: its newest Board member, former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

The appointment didn’t sit well with Reddit, Twitter, and the rest of the Webiverse, which immediately launched into a “Drop Dropbox” campaign to try and force Rice, a proponent of wireless wiretapping, from the company that holds files for more than 275 million users. The facts that Dropbox was listed as a “future” NSA PRISM surveillance target and was recently lambasted for automatically scanning user files to generate document previews only added fuel to the fire, though the company also conducts many pro-privacy efforts.

The outcry didn’t work. Today, CEO Drew Houston took to the Dropbox blog in a post dubbed, “Our commitment to your rights and privacy” to explain why Rice was invited to the board—her experience in international areas, given Dropbox’s international push, specifically—and pointedly not dump her.

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