[OSM-talk] Google Map Maker

[Dave Stubbs]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Nick Whitelegg
<Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk> wrote:
>>I'm using gmail. The way I read my user agreement google
>>pretty much has the right to do anything they want with
>>any information I give them. For that reason I'm careful
>>not to put anything really important in my emails.
>
> I find that very hard to believe, that a mail service operator would have
> the right to "steal" confidential
> info in your email. Is there not a law against unauthorised reading of
> emails?
> Or am I missing something?
>


Well, their Gmail T&C goes, "We will not use any of your content for
any purpose except to provide you with the Service".  I think you can
expect that none of your content should show up elsewhere, and their
privacy policy will apply to most stuff which essentially limits them
to "aggregated non-personal information". You probably have a pile of
rights beyond this, but don't expect Google to admit it.

Some people get very paranoid (not without some justification -- in
the general T&Cs it says uploading content to Google gives them a
non-exclusive right to do just about anything they want with it), but
there's a fair bit of FUD flying around as well.

Dave