This week, Google launched a new product called Google Drive, a cloud storage service. They offer a free 5GB for new users. As the saying goes, "there is no such thing as a free lunch," and that is true again as it seems that the policy of Google Drive Privacy some interesting details. Here is the section that is drawing the most concern:
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 is 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.
Although this is a little daunting to read, it turns out that's just legal language standard that Google uses for all their products, allowing them to do the basic things as creating thumbnails to Google image search, translate a website on the fly using Google translate, or move files on their servers. The only concern you should have is that your file could end used as a graphic in another advertisement, the same level of access as Facebook and Flickr have for your photos. Your intellectual property will remain your own. Google is not going to make a film based on the scenario that you downloaded.
Full article in Washington Post
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