And just to distill the current policy - T&C: http://code.google.com/appengine/terms.html Privacy: http://code.google.com/appengine/privacy.html
T&C Seciton 6: Here are your rights, except as outlined in section 8 T&C Section 8: ... in accordance with the privacy policy Privacy Policy: 'Personal Information: Content. Google App Engine stores, processes your application source code and content in order to provide the service to you.' 'Uses: We use this information internally to deliver the best possible service to you, such as improving the Google App Engine user interface and maintaining a consistent and reliable user experience.' On Apr 4, 1:46 pm, Tim Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
