I think this is scary enough to hold me off and anyone who cares about his personal privacy would probably as well. I would not throw more fire to the data acquiring behemoth that google has become:
This can be found in their licence agreement:
"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."
For now but I still wouldn't trust them at all. Wait till the dust is settled they simply rely on that people just click okay on everything without reading through the terms and conditons, same as Microsoft.
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This can be found in their licence agreement:
"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."
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