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Old 04-26-2012, 07:42 PM   #46
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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice View Post
Google's lack-of-privacy policy:

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com...ref=fpnewsfeed

"When you upload or otherwise submit content to 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. ”
There's often an issue with many EULAs where in order for a company to be allowed to store your data and move it around on their systems you have to grant rights that sound way over the top.

Take for example youtube.

If google don't have the right to create derivitive works, chances are when you upload your video with a given codec and resolution, Google wouldn't be allowed to transcode it to webM or h264 and produce several different resolutions for mobile, standard def, HD 720 and 1080.

Without the world wide permission to publically perform/display and distribute the content, your uploaded youtube video gets seen by nobody. Much as a photo uploaded to facebook wouldn't be allowed to be seen by anyone else if you hadn't granted facebook the right to distribute and publically display it.

Now if the user terms are qualified with giving all those rights only in order to provide usage of the service you signed up for, then it's likely not evil*. If it's not qualified/limited in that way then yeah, it's evil*. They need those rights, but only for the purpose of providing the services you've signed up to.

One issue google may have is that they've tried to standardise their privacy policy across all products recently. It may be the terms they needed for one service yet don't need for another is now an issue as un-neccesary terms are applied to a service and people will question why. (ignoring the legal issues google may be facing on the merging of all policies and the impact it has on privacy)

*evil in the don't be evil sense not in the true "horror" meaning of the sense evil
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