Further digging comes up with this, which is what I thought I was
referring to in my first post. I don't know about you, but this makes me
nervous:
at
http://www.google.com/privacy_terms.html
11. Content license from you
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which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By
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Gregg Kaloust
A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> on
March 12, 2009 at 12:49 PM -0400 wrote:
>Boy, is that a relief! Now I don't have to worry about them owning all the
>steamy messages I send to my wife.
>
>On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Gregg Kaloust <gregg@kannoncom.com>
>wrote:
>
>> A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> on
>> March 12, 2009 at 12:00 PM -0400 wrote:
>> >I've read the Google Apps for Education Edition Agreement as well as
>> >Google's privacy policy and can find no reference to Google's
>"ownership"
>> >of
>> >customer content. I'd be interested to see the provision that
>indicates
>> >that this is the case, because I'm in the process of evaluating Google
>> >Apps
>> >right now.
>>
>> I seem to have overstated this. My bad for going by "remembered"
>> information rather than rechecking. The policy, which explictly states
>> they do NOT own your content (so maybe it is a change) is here:
>>
>> http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html
>>
>> Gregg Kaloust
>>
>>
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