A few days ago we peeked in the licenses of three popular services
cloud storage and the location of Big G has slightly concerned but also other services are just so? To answer this question, we submitted in the conditions of use of two of the most famous, Dropbox and Skydrive, and other details have emerged
not exactly reassuring .
Starting with Dropbox , one of the first lines states that the company will not provide our content to anyone ever , even in legal cases:
No matter how the Services change, we will not share your content with others, Including Law Enforcement
which one part is reassuring, but the other very credible, so we would expect his side to a lot of asterisks, ready to conceal "the catch".
A few lines later, we discover that in fact we are the sole responsibility of the account and the actions derived from it, whether or not expressly authorized by us, and that if we want our data is safe with us we have to worry about building a secure connection the server.
You are Responsible for any activity using your account, Whether or not you Authorized That activity. (...) It is your responsibility to use a secure encrypted connection to communicate with the Services.
Continuing, we came across another sentence rather enigmatic , which seems to refer in a contradictory way to the first point:
We Will Respond to Alleged notices of copyright infringement If They Comply with the law and are properly provided to us.
or, in case of copyright infringement, Dropbox could provide the required data .We end the tracking on this service with a fairly obscure last paragraph:
We may share your information with a third party application with your consent, (...) we are not Responsible for Those parties do what with your information.
In a nutshell, Dropbox can share our data with other applications, but the company is not responsible for what third parties do with this information. What is legitimate in the sense that it will only against our consent, but if we want to be sure it is better not to give it regardless.
Moving to Redmond, the old story does not change much with SkyDrive promises the same things as Dropbox, only to emphasize that
The user is responsible for backing up data files in the service. Following the suspension or cancellation of service, it may permanently delete your information from their servers without any obligation to return the data to the user.
Report also the possibilities for the company to automatically load information on the user's computer and using the same service is offered by Microsoft, allowing himself the right to change the contract at any time, especially:
Microsoft may access information about you, including the content of your communications, or to disclose: (a) comply with legal requirements or comply with legal requirements or with legal process, (b) protect the rights or owned by Microsoft or its customers, including the enforcement of contracts Microsoft or policies governing the use of Microsoft's service by the user, or (c) protect the personal safety of employees, customers or users Microsoft, in good faith belief that such access or disclosure is necessary for that purpose.
But what is meant by good faith ? We ask this because in the end also contains a clause similar to Google Drive.
Consulting with Big G, we note that Google does not attempt to dispose of property of you, but simply a warning, with the most colorful tones , that if you load something on their servers, something that could be used, but only for services that Mountain View is interesting: a kind of suggestions box implied that looks very much like a mirror for larks or at least to a hook is not too inviting .Through the text, we note an interesting clause that the company arrogates the right to show our content in good faith , just like Microsoft.
Apparently, however, is not all that glitters is gold , and none of the three services seem free from objections and "data leakage": what do you think?
