Google’s cloud service under criticism, terms and conditions raise some serious questions among critics – Part 1

Google launched first eagerly awaited clouding service called Google Drive two days ago. Though the search engine giant were a little late to the clouding competition with the likes of Apple and Microsoft already streaking in the market with their respective services, iCloud and SkyDrive, the company did not need a promotion trumpet or a herald to announce the service.

However, the most awaited online storage service came under tight scrutiny and criticism from the experts all over the world right from the starting date. Google Drive’s terms and conditions for the use of services have attracted the opprobrium from the tech gurus all over the world.

According to the published terms and conditions, to which the users will have to agree in order to avail the cloud service, say clearly in black and white that all the content that is stored in Google Drive will eventually be Google’s property, as long as it is on the GDrive and even after the user terminates the service contract.

On the other hand, services like SkyDrive and DropBox value users’ privacy and hold their rights to share the content uploaded on their clouds to the very first notch. Following are the excerpts from SkyDrive, DropBox and Google Drive’s terms and conditions for a clear comparison.

DropBox

“Your Stuff & Your Privacy: By using our Services you provide us with information, files, and folders that you submit to Dropbox (together, “your stuff”). You retain full ownership to your stuff. We don’t claim any ownership to any of it. These Terms do not grant us any rights to your stuff or intellectual property except for the limited rights that are needed to run the Services, as explained below.”

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Posted by Usman Khalid on Apr 26 2012. Filed under Sci-Tech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.