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OS: Chrome
Pri: 3
Type: Feature



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Feature Request: Allow Enterprise Environment to control Chrome Cloud Sync with USB devices

Reported by thomasm...@gmail.com, Dec 12 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.94 Safari/537.36
Platform: (latest)

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Plug mobile device into Chrome OS device
2. Allow device to connect via USB
3. Allow device to sync on Chrome OS
4. All the images in DCIM is synchronized to Google Drive

What is the expected behavior?
We are in an enterprise environment and expected an option to turn off auto sync between drive and mobile devices. This option is not available and it is causing us a lot of grief. Students are mistakenly syncing their entire cell phone photo album to Google drive unknowingly. There has been a few report cases of parents doing this.

What went wrong?
Teachers, Students, and Parents are unknowingly uploading all their images off their mobile devices onto Google Cloud. 

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 62.0.3202.94  Channel: stable
OS Version: 62
Flash Version: N/A

We are looking for an option in the Admin Console to disable USB Cloud Sync.
 

Comment 1 by emaxx@chromium.org, Dec 15 2017

Cc: emaxx@chromium.org
Owner: maxkirsch@chromium.org
maxkirsch@, could you please prioritize?
Also, should we loop the Privacy team in?
Cc: maxkirsch@chromium.org
Owner: zalcorn@chromium.org
zalcorn@ what's the expected behavior here in general?
The expected behavior is we need a way to turn this "feature" off via enterprise enrollment settings. Even though there are multiple notifications that data will be synced to Google Drive, people are still accepting them without reading and it is resulting in issues across our district. 
Owner: weifangsun@chromium.org
Over to weifangsun@ who owns the files app features.
Components: Platform>Apps>FileManager>CloudImport
Can the Chrome API be used to prevent uploading to Drive?
Cc: weifangsun@chromium.org
Components: -Platform>Apps>FileManager>CloudImport Platform>Apps>FileManager
Labels: -Type-Bug -Pri-2 CrOS-FilesApp-CloudImport Pri-3 Type-Feature
Owner: ----
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
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Comment 8 by grt@chromium.org, Feb 20 2018

Labels: Enterprise-Triaged
Marking as triaged since it seems that the right component has been picked and that the right people are looking into it.

Comment 9 by sashab@chromium.org, Feb 28 2018

Labels: -CrOS-FilesApp-CloudImport CrOSFilesFeature-CloudImport
Status: Available (was: Untriaged)
Any update on this issue? I'd like to see it implemented before the next school year.
Hi - This feature request is in our backlog. However, we currently do not have an estimate for when it might be implemented.
Of course

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