Hi
On Apr 4, 7:20 pm, Portos <[email protected]> wrote:
> And your car is on a public road, but it doesn't mean it 's public
> property, does it? The fact that google offers a hosting / cluster
> service don't give them authoring rights in any country I know.
>
No, but in Western Australia if I break certain hoon laws the cops can
confiscate my car for a period,
and if I perform the same offence several times I will lose it
permanently,
I would have to say the analogy is between google and the police/
government not the public.
The public have no access to my code on app engine unless I make it
available.
If I where google I would reserve the right to access the code if the
need arose to ensure the
service runs correctly, and investigate problems that can arise if
something in code does
something strange. The same goes with the cops, they can seize my car
or lock me up, if I do something
inappropriate which ensures the roads (in theory ) remain safe ;-)
There is an inherent acceptance on my part of the road rules when I
use the car on the road.
You are accepting googles rules when you use their service. (I am
not saying privacy etc isn't important at all)
but the terms the service are made available under is really up to the
service provider (unless it is breaking some other law) and that
everyone planning to use google or any other cloud type service needs
to think carefully about whether
it is appropriate to use it, laws can differ signficantly between
countries. (I believe these differences are one of the reasons why
Amazon introduced availability zones in europe, so that the laws there
can cover the data held in europe rather than us law.
T
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