Andrew Flusche, Fredericksburg Lawyer

About a year ago, I wrote about the Google Docs end user license. Basically, I concluded that Google Docs isn’t very safe for confidential information that you want to safeguard.

Now there has been a huge flareup over the Google Chrome terms of service. I was interviewed by a reporter about how the license truly affects users like you. He wrote a comprehensive article that is now online.

If you would like to know more about Google’s Terms of Service, I highly suggest reading the article. Here is what I added to the article:

Andrew Flusche, a Fredericksburg, Virginia, lawyer who focuses on copyright and other issues, questioned how internal Google policy would guarantee protection of the end-users.

“Google’s internal policy can change any time; it’s their policy,” Flusche said. “The only protection users have is what the EULA [end user license agreement] says.”

The user agreement could allow Google to “publish a full-color book of Picasa photos as a promotional product,” he added.

Google is correct when it says many Web sites have similar copyright provisions, he added. “But that doesn’t mean anything,” Flusche said. “The terms are still unfavorable to users; that’s the dynamic of a huge corporation and millions of end-users.”

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