Google Drive Terms Of Service Let Google Do Whatever It Likes With Your Files

Let's recap the Google TOS story arc:<p>- Google changed its TOS and everyone got upset about it<p>- Google made substantial changes to the TOS to clarify that they weren't actually claiming ownership of your IP<p>- Now, "news" outlets are selectively taking sections out of the new TOS to make it appear bad again<p>I hate Terms of Service in general. But the criticism leveled by this article has already been addressed. This is incompetent journalism.

Isn't this a fairly standard "let us serve/host your files from any of our data centers in the world and move them to any data center in the world" EULA with a bit extra so they can build up services around it (translation, OCR, etc.)?<p>I bet if they swung their critical eye to the EULAs of SkyDrive or DropBox or iCloud they might find something similar.

It might just be me, but I don't usually trust cultofmac.com with reporting my unbias Google news.

<i>"Google does at least say that these conditions are solely for “the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones,” but as terms of service can change, I’d be a little worried about this claim."</i><p>Er, you could say "as terms of service can change, I’d be a little worried" even if the <i>only</i> term in the ToS was "these terms of service can change". If the problem's only a problem if the ToS changes, then it's not a problem yet.<p>Well, aside from the problem of the whole notion of ToS/EULAs being completely unsuitable for the way they get used nowadays. But that's a whole other issue, and has nothing to do with google.

What about the "publish" part of it ? I mean they can tell me that the code I upload online will stay my intellectual property, and I understand if they need to read it, or modify it for OCR. But why publish ? I don't want my code published everywhere....

<a href="http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/04/24/no-google-does-not-own-everything-that-you-upload-to-drive/" rel="nofollow">http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/04/24/no-google-does-not-o...</a>

No it doesn't! how many times are we going to go over this!?<p>It's amazing how FUD spreads like wildfire.<p><a href="http://www.google.com/policies/terms/" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/policies/terms/</a><p><i>You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours.</i><p><i>The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones.</i><p>Read the whole thing, not out of context excerpts.