Imagine storing everything you’ve ever written as well as your work files containing sensitive business or corporate information, your tax receipts, annual credit reports, personal credentials (birth certificate, scans of your passport, etc.) and so forth on your G-Drive. ( MORE: 5 Reasons to Give Google Drive a Shot)īut that catchall approach means services you interact with in very different ways wind up covered under a blanket policy, and the obvious problem with that, is that many of Google’s services are unique, with Google Drive’s singularity in terms of exposing your most sensitive personal information taking the cake. When Google simplified its “terms of service” last month, it did so in part by pulling all of its separate privacy policies under one umbrella, consolidating text and admirably rewriting things in a way that sounds at least a little less like mind-numbing, cover-every-base legalese. In fact the way things are currently laid out within Google’s service terms, the company could theoretically pore over your G-Drive data at leisure, mining it for information about you, say, to use in its relentless pursuit of more personalized ads.
Follow your private diary, novel manuscript, amateur movie or digitally crafted song to Google’s new Google Drive and it’s totally impervious to company tinkering, right? Not necessarily.
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