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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Drive launched
« on: April 26, 2012, 09:31 PM »
A good breakdown of the privacy issue:
Google Drive: The truth about data ownership | Cloud Pro
http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/cloud-essentials/3465/google-drive-truth-about-data-ownership
If I were to put any sensitive files on their servers, I'd simply encrypt them first.
Google Drive: The truth about data ownership | Cloud Pro
http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/cloud-essentials/3465/google-drive-truth-about-data-ownership
... there are still some causes for legitimate concern about the wording of what followed, and was less widely reported by the Twitterati: "This licence continues even if you stop using our Services". That's the license in which you are granting Google the rights to use your data for the "limited purpose of operating, promoting and improving" its services as well as to "develop new ones”.
And there lies the rub methinks, this is less about data ownership and more about data usage, privacy and security. Google does not, as it clearly states, own your data; ownership remains with the user, but it sure as heck does seem to expect an awful big slice of privilege when it comes to what it can do with that data forever more.
If I were to put any sensitive files on their servers, I'd simply encrypt them first.