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Google Photos Launches With Unlimited Storage, Completely Separate From Google+

Posted by timothy on from the delete-is-the-hardest-key-to-press dept.

An anonymous reader writes with a report that Google yesterday announced at its I/O conference a photo-storage site known as Google Photos. Says the article: The new service is completely separate from Google+, something Google users have been requesting for eons. Google is declaring that Google Photos lets you backup and store "unlimited, high-quality photos and videos, for free." It's a bit creepy to see all the photos that Google still has on tap, including many that I've since deleted on my phone.

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  1. Re:Until Google closes it... by John+Allsup · · Score: 4, Informative

    Calm down dear, it's just the 'code' setting in User->Accounts->Post. (Having grown up with text mode, I kind of have a nostalgic attachment to monospaced text -- you might guess that from my /. UID)

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  2. Re:Until Google closes it... by matfud · · Score: 4, Informative

    He is pointing out that google are renowned for dropping services for business reasons. Often with little or no warning.

  3. Re:Ner ner! by chihowa · · Score: 4, Informative

    But it IS reliable and private. It's only NOT private when you take the "Free" options.

    [citation needed]

    From the Terms of Service:

    When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content.

    Neither that, nor their Privacy Policy mention any exceptions for Photos if you pay for them. Where did you get this idea?

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