[shawnhermans]

You claim that Google could use personal photos of my kid eating ice cream to sell advertising? This seems directly against their terms of service found at http://www.google.com/policies/terms/.

> Some of our Services allow you to upload, submit, store, send or receive content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours.

Do you have any proof of this ever happening? Do you have any legal case that support your claim? Can you please point to the text in their TOS that leads you to believe this?

[chisleu]

You need to actually read the TOS for dropbox. It says they can use your stuff for any service they offer now or in the future.

I don't need proof. You need to go read the TOS I mentioned already.

[sliverstorm]

I think you may need to re-read the comments you yourself wrote and replied to.

[chisleu]

Here ya go.

"When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content . The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing you have added to Google Maps). "

They changed the TOS to rephrase, but didn't remove the infringing portion. It used to say any service offered now or in the future, and now it says "to make new services."

The fact is, my original statement stands.

They can quite literally use your content for any reason because they can use it to develop new services (such as, say, personalized road side advertising.)

There is nothing legally stopping them from doing it, and if you have been paying attention to the issues highlighted by Snowden and others, there is little backlash to them as a company for doing very evil things such as leaving inter-datacenter communication unencrypted allowing the NSA and others to snoop upon Gmail and all other google services as the data replicates across locations.

Good times talking to you. Appreciate the down votes.

Once again, make sure you actually read the damned thing in question before even replying to a comment about it. You ignorant, uninformed points are worthless.

Also, here is the dropbox TOS: " Your Stuff is yours. These Terms don't give us any rights to Your Stuff except for the limited rights that enable us to offer the Services.

We need your permission to do things like hosting Your Stuff, backing it up, and sharing it when you ask us to. Our Services also provide you with features like photo thumbnails, document previews, email organization, easy sorting, editing, sharing and searching. These and other features may require our systems to access, store and scan Your Stuff."

REMARKABLY less ambiguous, and in fact enumerates the Services they offer. They literally only want to host your data. Google wants to data mine your data, even if you delete the data and your google account, google wants to keep using your data, forever.

This isn't the same thing.