Google Drive vs. Dropbox Terms of Service
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Google Drive vs. Dropbox Terms of Service
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Re: Google Drive vs. Dropbox Terms of Service
#2"Some of our Services allow you to submit content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours.
When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing you have added to Google Maps). Some Services may offer you ways to access and remove content that has been provided to that Service. Also, in some of our Services, there are terms or settings that narrow the scope of our use of the content submitted in those Services. Make sure you have the necessary rights to grant us this license for any content that you submit to our Services.
You can find more information about how Google uses and stores content in the privacy policy or additional terms for particular Services. If you submit feedback or suggestions about our Services, we may use your feedback or suggestions without obligation to you."
Re: Google Drive vs. Dropbox Terms of Service
#3Yup. This is EXACTLY what I knew Google would try to pull. There is no way I'm switching from Dropbox to one of the shadiest online companies out there.
Re: Google Drive vs. Dropbox Terms of Service
#4I do agree that Dropbox's wording is much friendlier, but I attribute most of the difference to Google having big plans (e.g., searching and sharing) and being careful that their terms will permit them. I suspect a big part of this is Google's intention to analyze your data to make it indexed/searchable (e.g., their 'search for Mt. Everest and get back your pictures of it' features).
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#5We may need your permission to do things you ask us to do with your stuff, for example [..]. This includes [..]. It also includes [..]. You give us the permissions we need to do those things solely to provide the Services.
So I give Dropbox full access to do things with my stuff? Seriously? IANAL, but doesn't that include more than what Google says?
Also note that Google has this line (you know, just above the paragraph that was quoted in the article): Some of our Services allow you to submit content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours.
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#6Complete FUD. Best article I've read on this is from The Verge. Google would be unable to create backups or thumbnails for example without these rights.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/25/2973849/google-drive-terms...
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#7On the other hand, this post from The Verge explains what is actually going on: http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/25/2973849/google-drive-terms...
The important quote: "Looking at some of Google's competitors, it's clear that they need the exact same permissions — they just use slightly more artful language to communicate them."
All of these services need similar permissions, as do most web services: it's just an artifact of how our copyright law works. Google does a bad job of expressing that reality as nicely as others (like Dropbox), but with almost equivalent permissions, I'd put them pretty far down on the list of companies not to trust.
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#8Looks like Google accidentally started two memes this month: #whitespace and #selectivelyquoteprivacypolicy
Re: Google Drive vs. Dropbox Terms of Service
#9Yup. This is EXACTLY what I knew Google would try to pull. There is no way I'm switching from Dropbox to one of the shadiest online companies out there.
Sounds a little tin-foil hat to me. Care you justify your hyperbole?
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#10We may need your permission to do things you ask us to do with your stuff, for example [..]. This includes [..]. It also includes [..]. You give us the permissions we need to do those things solely to provide the Services. So I give Dropbox full access to do things with my stuff ? Seriously? IANAL, but doesn't that include more than what Google says? Also note that Google has this line (you know, just above the parag…
How did you get to "So I give Dropbox full access to do things with my stuff?" from what Dropbox put, I personally did not interrupt it that way at all...