Comment Re:Privacy (Score 1) 293
When you download the Google Desktop for Linux you are presented with the agreement that includes the following.
It says that you give Google the right to publish any content you display using their services.
I like Google, but that license is unreasonable. I have sensitive information on my disk.
Snipped from the license agreement:
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11. Content licence from you
11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This licence is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services."
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Hello Google? Anybody home?!?
-Monta Elkins
Information Security Officer
Radford University
It says that you give Google the right to publish any content you display using their services.
I like Google, but that license is unreasonable. I have sensitive information on my disk.
Snipped from the license agreement:
"
11. Content licence from you
11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This licence is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services."
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Hello Google? Anybody home?!?
-Monta Elkins
Information Security Officer
Radford University
