I don't think terms provide too much assurance - maybe they're only really useful if legal recourse ensues. There will always be the possibility of a rogue emp

I don't think terms provide too much assurance - maybe they're only really useful if legal recourse ensues. There will always be the possibility of a rogue employee who goes out of his or her way to read data that doesn't belong to them. In the case of Dropbox - to prevent this possibility - we can encrypt our data if we choose to (I've successfully used 'encfs' in the past). In the case of Google's email and document services I don't think this is possible?