Beware Google Browser’s License Agreement
As I suspected, a product from a company like Google shouldn't be trusted without scrutiny. They've developed a new open-source Internet browser to compete with Firefox and Internet Explorer, but if you read carefully, you might notice this:
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 license 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 license 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.
11.2 You agree that this license includes a right for Google to make such Content available to other companies, organizations or individuals with whom Google has relationships for the provision of syndicated services, and to use such Content in connection with the provision of those services.
So anything you submit through the Google browser can be stored and used for either promotion purposes or for selling to 3rd parties. In other words, Google browser is nothing more than the most sophisticated data-brokering device yet created (or spyware in other words).
Google may have the best search engine around, but their privacy policies are and have always been complete crap.
2008 Sept, 04 Update
Well that was fast. Google has updated it's EULA to remove any reference to them holding rights to what you own. It looks like they just cut-and-pasted their EULA from Google docs (which still has that problem). Now it reads like this:11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services.Share This
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Wow, you really enjoy blowing shit out of proportion and blatantly mis-reading things, don’t you?
Get a life, you sad, sad, alarmist man.
Please don’t waste my time leaving baseless insulting comments on my site. If you have a point to make, make it.
Thank you for actualyl reading the license carefully and letting the rest of us sheep know we are being fleeced. I did not see that because, like many stupid Orwell-trained sheep, I just click “agree”. Like a moron. Anyways .. thank you for the heads up.
Thanks for the notice. I like Google but this is typical of their policies.
Thanks for the service you provided by being one of the industry watchers that keep tabs on corporations like Google. I certainly would no have had the drive to go through this draconian piece of EULA to find it out.
And for user Archibald (I will assume his comment was out of plain dumbness, and not from any malicious ploy to muddle waters on this chrystal clear situation): Google changed the EULA EXACTLY because people like Jeremy called it out, not because someone at Google reviewed it and found it to go against its “do no evil rule”. Corporations are giant blind beasts, and need to be steered by the users in order not to fall on top of our rights.
hi jeremy, thankyou for that usefull peice of information , i also found your article on yahoo suspension very interesting, as i have had an account suspended without any notifications, and ive contacted the customer care team , and the yahoo answers team, who have told me i was in violation on yahoo answers,so i created a new account, and i done some research on the answers boards, and it only takes two people to report your answers or questions for you to get a violation notice(wethere your material was a violation or not) and i had my account terminated just because some people decided to gang up on users that were progressing through the levels. yahoo are useless when it comes to helping people, and the fact that they can take away an account at the drop of a hat is disgusting, as i too like your self had lots of important emails in my account, so i stick with hotmail now, and i will no longer be using yahoos services.and to that archibald guy, you should be grateful for people like jeremy,theres always a downside to most things on the internet, and if you arent worried about your own safety and privacy, then more fool you.