Matthew Panzarino reports for TechCrunch on Tim Cook’s speech on encryption and privacy at the EPIC’s Champions of Freedom event in Washington. Tim Cook implicitly commented on companies (Google and Facebook among others) that collect data from their users, emphasizing Google Photos:
“We believe the customer should be in control of their own information. You might like these so-called free services, but we don’t think they’re worth having your email, your search history and now even your family photos data mined and sold off for god knows what advertising purpose. And we think some day, customers will see this for what it is.”
As a remainder, here is an excerpt of the license that applies to Google Photos:
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. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing you have added to Google Maps).
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
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