Google Chrome EULA: All your **** belong to us!

[DAGTA]

EULA getting changed...

http://tapthehive.com/discuss/...me_Google_s_EULA_Sucks

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: DAGTA
EULA getting changed...

http://tapthehive.com/discuss/...me_Google_s_EULA_Sucks

That was fast.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: DAGTA
EULA getting changed...

http://tapthehive.com/discuss/...me_Google_s_EULA_Sucks

ALREADY mentioned that!

Originally posted by: waggy
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10031703-56.html

Google said on Wednesday that it plans to alter contract terms that gave the search provider broad rights to use anything entered into its new Chrome browser.

"In order to keep things simple for our users, we try to use the same set of legal terms (our Universal Terms of Service) for many of our products," Google said in a statement provided to CNET News. "Sometimes, as in the case of Google Chrome, this means that the legal terms for a specific product may include terms that don't apply well to the use of that product. We are working quickly to remove language from Section 11 of the current Google Chrome terms of service."

As first noted by CNET News on Tuesday, Chrome's End User License agreement appeared to give Google a perpetual right to use anything one entered into the browser. Section 11 stated that although users retain copyright to their works, "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."

Google said the change, once it is made, will apply retroactively to anyone who has downloaded the browser.

All this is separate from the issue of what information Google plans to store on its servers. Provided that users leave on the auto-suggest feature in Chrome and have Google as their default search provider, Google has the right to store any information typed into Chrome's Ominibox, which serves as both search bar and address bar. The software maker told CNET News it plans to store about 2 percent of all such data, along with the IP address of the computer that entered the information.

 

[udneekgnim]

Originally posted by: Anubis
the WoW EULA says they own your soul

Blizzard is just making it official

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: udneekgnim

Originally posted by: Anubis
the WoW EULA says they own your soul

Blizzard is just making it official

no. blizzard has it they take your first born. but damn they keep sending mine back..

 

[Renob]

I haven't trusted Google for years now. It's a shame they make such good products, but for a company who's motto is "do no evil", they're a pretty damn evil company.

Im curious about this statement, what evil had Google ever done to you, or someone you know?

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Renob

I haven't trusted Google for years now. It's a shame they make such good products, but for a company who's motto is "do no evil", they're a pretty damn evil company.

Im curious about this statement, what evil had Google ever done to you, or someone you know?

I don't think they are evil. they tell you exactly what they are. BUT i wouldnt trust them to much. They are getting huge and have tons of data on everyone.

just worries me when they have other people in charge.

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: Quiksilver
The EULA for chrome is the same for every google service... so quick stop using gmail, google search, blogger, you tube, picasso, and every other free google service because you bothered to pay attention to the a EULA for once in your life.

:roll:

No need to stop. I never started, except for search, adn if they want to publish or sell my porn search data, well, they're welcome to it.

 

[grrl]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim

Originally posted by: Ocguy31

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
love how you didn't bold the most important part!

You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.

You are just giving them permission to use items as a promotional tool for chrome that is all.

Hmm....im not detecting any sarcasm here? Are you trying to put lipstick on a pig?


11.2 You agree that this license includes a right for Google to make such Content available to other companies, organizations or individuals with whom Google has relationships for the provision of syndicated services, and to use such Content in connection with the provision of those services.


Lets see your best shot on making that one pretty.....

i dont understand what that means actually.

Then their lawyers have done their job.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Originally posted by: mugs
some nefarious scheme to steal your content and eat your babies.

oh noes!!11!

They are going to steal y content and eat my babies!!!11!

 

[WelshBloke]

So how enforcable are EULA's if they can be changed at will?

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: WelshBloke
So how enforcable are EULA's if they can be changed at will?

thats the problem with EULA's. well one of them anyway.

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: WelshBloke
So how enforcable are EULA's if they can be changed at will?

They are enforceable to the extent they don't retroactively deprive the user of rights. This change retroactively gives the user MORE rights and Google fewer rights. If you agreed to the former, the latter could hardly be objectionable.

 

[ViviTheMage]

It's open source, what'd you expect.