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No need to guess, read the terms yourself before spreading FUD. https://fiber.google.com/legal/terms.html https://fiber.google.com/legal/terms.html

by enneff 14y ago

contingencies 14y ago
I am not spreading FUD, I am raising valid points. Rather than providing meaningful response your reply was rather unpleasant. Let me attempt an interpretation. Privacy: To sign up for Fiber, users will be asked to provide an existing Google Account or to create a new one. You may be asked to provide additional personal information, such as billing address, service address or location, or bank account information when you sign up for Fiber. We may also obtain and use information about our Fiber users from outside sources for marketing purposes (such as commercially available demographic, geographic, or interest information). We may share non-personally identifiable information publicly and with our partners – like content providers, publishers, advertisers or connected sites. So, that seems to mean, to a non-lawyer, they associate all your network use with your existing Google account and can release any information on your network use and derived information on your interests as long as they don't give out your name. Availability: WE DON’T MAKE ANY COMMITMENTS ABOUT THE CONTENT WITHIN THE SERVICES, THE SPECIFIC FUNCTION OF THE EQUIPMENT OR SERVICES, OR THEIR RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, OR ABILITY TO MEET YOUR NEEDS (ie. zero) Sharing: Disallowed (but intention-based, so fuzzy, and practically you could share with a bunch of neighbours). The Fiber Services are intended for the personal use of you and others with whom you share your residence (including, within reason, guests who are visiting you). You agree not to resell or repackage the Services for use by people other than those with whom you share your residence. If you wish to use the Google Fiber Services to provide Internet service to others, you must enter a separate agreement with Google Fiber that specifically authorizes you to do so. All in all, less than stellar. Legally, you wouldn't be able to build a business on this without paying more to Google, and you wouldn't have any availability guarantees at all. Reading between the lines I'd guess it's basically an experiment in high speed consumer profiling against existing Google databases, with potential interest to provide Google related ChromeOS (I guess) set top boxes with enhanced YouTube support, plus DRM protected content delivery from Netflix, etc.

No need to guess, read the terms yourself before spreading FUD. https://fiber.google.com/legal/terms.html https://fiber.google.com/legal/terms.html

by enneff 14y ago

No need to guess, read the terms yourself before spreading FUD. https://fiber.google.com/legal/terms.html https://fiber.google.com/legal/terms.html

contingencies 14y ago

I am not spreading FUD, I am raising valid points. Rather than providing meaningful response your reply was rather unpleasant. Let me attempt an interpretation. Privacy: To sign up for Fiber, users will be asked to provide an existing Google Account or to create a new one. You may be asked to provide additional personal information, such as billing address, service address or location, or bank account information when you sign up for Fiber. We may also obtain and use information about our Fiber users from outside sources for marketing purposes (such as commercially available demographic, geographic, or interest information). We may share non-personally identifiable information publicly and with our partners – like content providers, publishers, advertisers or connected sites. So, that seems to mean, to a non-lawyer, they associate all your network use with your existing Google account and can release any information on your network use and derived information on your interests as long as they don't give out your name. Availability: WE DON’T MAKE ANY COMMITMENTS ABOUT THE CONTENT WITHIN THE SERVICES, THE SPECIFIC FUNCTION OF THE EQUIPMENT OR SERVICES, OR THEIR RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, OR ABILITY TO MEET YOUR NEEDS (ie. zero) Sharing: Disallowed (but intention-based, so fuzzy, and practically you could share with a bunch of neighbours). The Fiber Services are intended for the personal use of you and others with whom you share your residence (including, within reason, guests who are visiting you). You agree not to resell or repackage the Services for use by people other than those with whom you share your residence. If you wish to use the Google Fiber Services to provide Internet service to others, you must enter a separate agreement with Google Fiber that specifically authorizes you to do so. All in all, less than stellar. Legally, you wouldn't be able to build a business on this without paying more to Google, and you wouldn't have any availability guarantees at all. Reading between the lines I'd guess it's basically an experiment in high speed consumer profiling against existing Google databases, with potential interest to provide Google related ChromeOS (I guess) set top boxes with enhanced YouTube support, plus DRM protected content delivery from Netflix, etc.