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Google Updates Chrome's Terms of Service

Posted by timothy on from the credit-where-due dept.

centuren writes "In response to the reaction to Chrome's terms of service, Google has truncated the offending Section 11, apologizing for the oversight. The new Section 11 contains only the first sentence included in their Universal Terms of Service, now stating: 'You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.'"

2 of 318 comments (clear)

  1. Google's TOS are still invasive by networkzombie · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sure, you get to keep the copyright, but after we use your material for our own purposes you will have to take us to court to prove you own the copyright. This is what happens when you use an over the wire service, be it an ASP model EMR or your cable provider reading your email. It is not private and this TOS proves it.

    By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive licence 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.

    I like having my data on my hard drives on my backup discs. You can keep you Web 3.0 crap.

  2. (OT) by BrokenHalo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    its just an "outbreak"... saying a sudden outbreak is redundant.

    ...as, of course, are all of these "fixed that for ya" posts.

    There seems to have been a rash of these lately, to the extent that when I have the points, I have found myself automatically modding them -1 redundant. They are rarely funny any more.