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by AmazingMe 5167 days ago
How come dropbox, skydrive don't need such perpetual blanket permission to provide exactly same service.
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From stuartmemo's comment, which you replied to:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/25/2973849/google-drive-terms...

> The Verge: "Is Google Drive worse for privacy than iCloud, Skydrive, and Dropbox?"

Short answer: no.

reading the article mentioned Skydrive: (GRANT ALL)..."posted on the service solely to the extent necessary to provide the service"

GDrive: (GRANT ALL)..."the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones."

Services vs. Service, Promoting vs providing

will showing book drafts being created by me on Google Books is promoting/improving there service, yep. Google may not do so ever, but you have to trust them instead of being on TOS.