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This is so wrong. If you read the comments, or any of the actual terms of service, you'll notice the author is actually cutting out the parts that make these TO
by icco 14y ago
This is so wrong. If you read the comments, or any of the actual terms of service, you'll notice the author is actually cutting out the parts that make these TOSes all identical. For instance, the Google one has: "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." right before the paragraph that is highlighted in this article.
See: http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/24/2972228/cloud-storage-terms-of-service-comparison-avoid-google-drive#100078908 http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/24/2972228/cloud-storage-term... for the excluded parts of the other TOSes.
- capo 14y agoExactly, not to mention that these are the TOS for all Google services and key language in that text specify that some services are treated differently: http://www.google.com/policies/terms/ http://www.google.com/policies/terms/ 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 Google Apps accounts have different TOS all together: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/standard_terms.html http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/standard_terms.html
- jlarocco 14y agoI don't think it's about retaining ownership, necessarily. With all of the services, your data remains yours. But reading the full paragraphs, it seems to me that DropBox's TOS say they won't use the user's data for things like advertisements. Google's TOS makes it pretty clear that uploading to Google Drive gives them a license to use and publish the data any way they want, as long as it's stored in Google Drive.