Summary: Google caused a flap this week with seemingly unfair terms of service for its new Google Drive service. But are those terms really different from the competition? I’ve gathered equivalent terms from Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Dropbox, and more, so you can judge for yourself.
With the launch of Google Drive this week, Google stirred up a hornet’s nest, thanks to its inclusion of terms of service that
appear to grant it more rights than it needs.
As I noted last night, this isn’t a new controversy.
Dropbox suffered a similar public backlash last summer over similar wording.
In July 2011, I
reviewed the terms of service for every major online file-sharing service so you can see for yourself what right you give up when you use any of these services.
