PC World — The wording of the Google Drive terms of service has ruffled some feathers. However, the short answer to the question posed in the title of this article is "no". Allow me to explain.
Google Drive finally unveiled its long-rumored cloud data storage service, Google Drive. The wording of the terms of services claims that Google reserves the right 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" content uploaded to their services.
What? Taken literally, that seems to imply that when I store a picture from my kid's birthday party in Google Drive, Google can do whatever it wants to with that file. Why does Google need to reproduce, modify, or distribute a picture from my kid's birthday? Does this mean I've surrendered my data and Google now owns it?
Again, the answer is "no".
All of the confusion about data privacy and ownership with Google Drive ignores the sentence that comes right before that part: "You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours."
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Source: CIO
By: Tony Bradley
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