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Table 4.
(
Continued
)
Use of Service
or Content:
Collection of
Personal
Information
Collection of location data
is the default.
“will not monitor, edit,
or disclose any
information regard- ing
you or your account,
including any Data,
without your prior
permission except in
accordance with this
Agree-ment.” A
privacy policy is
incorporated into the
terms of the Agreement
but the terms of it may
change. Open Drive
collects registration and
profile information,
payment information,
PC, IP address and
related information, and
cookies. “By using our
services you consent to
our collection and use
of
Service claims not
share personal
information, but it
can collect it (“To
be clear, aside from
the rare exceptions
we identify in our
Privacy Policy, no
matter how the
Services change, we
won't share your
content with
others...”) Of course
the exceptions are in
a separate document
not made a part of
this license.
“For example,
this information
may include the
device type,
mobile network
connectivity,
location of the
device,
information
about when the
Software
Apple collects personal
information as well as
technical or diagnostic
information regarding the
user's Apple devices. The
privacy policy is a separate
policy
and
is
not
incorporated
into
this
is
agreement.
launched,
individual
session lengths
for use of the
Service, content
used through
the Service, or
occurrences of
technical
errors.”
your
personal
information
as
described
in
this
Privacy Policy.”
6
Conclusion
The review and comparison of the four cloud computing services TOS reveal a
number of onerous or otherwise problematic provisions. In terms of legal risk, TOS
that require a user to indemnify the service for all harms such as iCloud, OpenDrive
and Amazon Cloud Drive are most dangerous while at the same time providers make
few if any legal promises (warranties) regarding the service availability or
functionality. From a sense of user functionality a cloud provider with the fewest
number of content restrictions is desirable. Dropbox appears to have the least number
of content restrictions. Users of any of the four cloud TOS agreements reviewed could
face termination and/or suspension for non-compliance with the TOS. Only Dropbox
will attempt but not promise to provide notice of suspension or termination. Overall
and as discussed above and presented in Table 4 (Comparison and Summary of Cloud
Computing TOS) below, Dropbox appears the most even-handed. Hopefully this
discussion provides users with an awareness of the range of issues that cloud
computing EULAs or TOS can contain. While it may not be possible to negotiate for
better terms, users can at least assess their comfort level with a particular service and
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