On 2012-04-25 at 10:24 -0400, Evan Pettrey wrote: > Which of these services are you planning to make your primary storage > solution? While I use a lot of Google's services, I'm a bit concerned about > their privacy policies. Most likely giving them ownership of any of my > files would never be an issue but I'm not sure that is a risk I'm willing > to take when it isn't necessary given the policies of their competitors in > this market. > > > The CNET news article here > <http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57420551-93/who-owns-your-files-on-google-drive/>does > a good job of summing up my concerns.
[ Disclosure up-front: I am a former Google employee, albeit one who has upset some former co-workers recently by pointing out various issues. The rose-tinted spectacles have definitely come off, so I don't think I'm automatically siding with Google here. ] The first response I saw to this was from Kenton Varda at: https://plus.google.com/118187272963262049674/posts/1MTWu4Emr5R who points out the *highly* disingenuous selective quoting from CNet. Later, via: https://plus.google.com/106412622934949305462/posts/auK4VXhZ474 I was pointed at: http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/25/2973849/google-drive-terms-privacy-data-skydrive-dropbox-icloud "Is Google Drive worse for privacy than iCloud, Skydrive, and Dropbox?" which might prove to be worth reading. (Deliberately provided one non-Google+ link, for the paranoid, but both of the linked articles are public and should be viewable in an anonymous browser session). -Phil _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
