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Originally Posted by K. Molen
Minimally necessary? What's minimal about being able to use uploaded content to promote their services? I see what you're saying and JoeD's example were very helpful, but the "promoting" part of their agreement makes me weary.
Am I wrong in assuming that Google technically has the right to create advertising using photos and videos uploaded to their cloud service? If so, that's BS and enough to make me shy away.
Not that I would care overly much if they did use any of my photos in their ads, but it's the presumptuousness and underhandedness of it that gets to me.
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That use by Google would arguably be: (i) an unreasonable interpretation of the terms of service (going beyond the license you grant); (ii) a violation of Google's own privacy policy; and (iii) a breach of privacy law (PIPEDA in Canada) as it may result in the unauthorized disclosure of personally identifiable info about you. Having already been investigated not that long ago by Canada's privacy commissioner, I suspect Google will be careful to be on its best behaviour with respect to privacy in any event.
The terms of service aren't particularly well drafted here because Google is trying to use those terms of service for a huge variety of its services - some of which more clearly involve promotion using user submitted content than others. These Terms of Service are drafted broadly so they can cover everything from Google Drive to Google Maps.