Google Drive does *not* own your data!
There is a pretty huge meme going around right now about how "Google Drive is stealing your data". Typical examples on twitter include @pdparticle - WOW! Google pretty much owns your data once uploaded to Google Drive. t.co/YUIqIVtM #GoogleDrive Google Drive owns everything you upload: terms of service analysis t.co/MDuZZ52R The truth, as in most of these cases, is a lot more complicated. In a nutshell, if you want to blame anybody/anything, blame the copyright laws . First of all, just to get this out of the way, Google explicitly says Some of our Services allow you to submit content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours Moving on, consider what rights Google needs to just do what it does on a day to day basis In fact, do this backwards - if you store your data on a hosted service, anywhere , then you have to assign a whole bushel of rights to that service fo...