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Originally Posted by disillusioned
From the Google Privacy Terms page...
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But according to the agreement they would have the right to use my content for promotional purposes, consent or no consent. Or are you saying their Privacy Terms override the user agreement?
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Also, I think common sense suggest that if Google used uploaded content not intended for public sharing to create advertising, it would be like PR suicide.
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Sure, but that's besides the point. The mere fact that they include that kind of language in the agreement is what irks me, not that they could potentially (however unlikely) use my photos in their promotional materials.
In fact, it'd be kind of cool if they did. That doesn't alter the ick factor of an unnecessarily overreaching agreement though.
Thanks to this thread, I think the decision I've made is to diversity the service providers I use for my online content. Google already have my e-mails, as GMail is now my primary e-mail account, but I don't think I'm willing to give them access to my cloud stored data.