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The exact same language is in the Google terms of service, so if you use Gmail, your emails are covered by the same language. Clearly, this is lawyer boilerpla
by nateberkopec 15y ago
The exact same language is in the Google terms of service, so if you use Gmail, your emails are covered by the same language.
Clearly, this is lawyer boilerplate being taken out of context.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/ http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/
- brudgers 15y ago"if you use Gmail" Yes, Gmail has the same issue. Google can use your data "to develop new services" for it's own benefit.
- ceejayoz 15y ago> Google can use your data "to develop new services" for it's own benefit. Which sounds nasty, until you realize they potentially need such language to be able to do something as simple as implementing a better spam filter, or offline syncing for your e-mail.
- brudgers 15y agoThat doesn't however explain why they need such language for drive. Furthermore, Google could, like dropbox, limit their use of your data to providing or improving the services they provide you. Spam filtering and syncing resonably fall in that category.
- ceejayoz 15y ago> That doesn't however explain why they need such language for drive. Google just recently went through a unification of their disparate privacy policies, terms of service, etc. I also don't see why Google wouldn't want to add services to Drive down the road...
- brudgers 15y agoUnification of Google's privacy policies was done for Google's benefit. Furthermore, as an explanation for why these policies should apply to drive, it begs the question.
- ceejayoz 15y agoThere's a significant benefit to users from having fewer policies applying to Google's many services.