Thursday, February 7, 2008

TERMS AND SERVICES (ANSWERS):

According to Clause 3, Privacy, and Clause 5, Content of the Service, Google may share your personal information and your content with a government.

What are the risks of such a clause?

Google may access or disclose your personal information, including the content of your communications, if Google is required to do so in order to comply with any valid legal process or governmental request such as a search warrant as it is cleared in the Terms of Service and the general Google Privacy Policy. Our personal information collected by Google may be stored and processed in any where and it is with our concent so our personal information doesnot ramain private. Our information can be misused without our permission.
Google reserves the right at all times to remove or refuse to distribute any content on the Service, such as content which violates the terms of this Agreement. Google also reserves the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information as it reasonably believes is necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request so our information can be processed against us.


According to Clause 11, Indemnification, you cannot sue Google for any use of the blog service.

Connecting this clause with the previous question, how might a service abuser benefit from such clause?

Our data can be corrupted by a service abuser or we can be found responsible of any act under my identification id.


According to Clause 6, all blog content is licensed under the Creative Commons License.

What are the objectives of the Creative Commons License?


Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."
We're a nonprofit organization. Everything we do including the software we create is free.


What other public licenses are available for use?
1) General Public License.
2) Apache Licence Version 2.0


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