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Mossberg on Google Jumping Into Cloud Game

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    The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg discusses Google Drive.

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Google drive Walt -- has the latest in cloud storage.

-- -- -- All right all things in.

Personal -- all the confident that the Wall Street Journal.

He's not in the cloud are good to see you Walt study showed up -- grabbed him when he -- think -- -- third floor it's not the Clinton had not yet at -- this does a lot of blood drop box now right people think about -- if they have their iPad and what they should get what they can't pay for but.

Google's new products tells about as good -- So goes had a thing called Google docs for a long while and it's basically been a cloud based version of Microsoft Office pretty rudimentary.

Fairly small percentage of people used it but people.

One of the ways to -- you we're using was there which put the stuff piles up there.

Even if they were never gonna end -- -- or use the tools to now Google is kind of formally said we're gonna create a cloud storage system.

We're gonna put keep Google -- in there.

But that's got can be the main focus of the main focuses that it's a drive in the in the sky and they are giving everybody five gigabytes.

A free storage and they're drastically.

Under cutting.

Drop boxes prices for additional storage -- -- drastically -- -- well Dropbox charges twenty bucks for a hundred gigabyte schools.

A month twenty bucks and up.

Who was charging five bucks a month that -- -- -- they had -- and it goes up from there I mean you can put you can -- like sixteen terabytes.

Which would be what the just the music -- that bright yeah.

Out on there and so they're they're serious about it there's a lot of sharing features there's.

-- searching features and other things they have what about the privacy of its.

Has your but -- uploading well you know I asked them about it people don't trust a lot of people don't trust -- because they've run into hot water -- keep being these episodes where they have debt.

Get investigated by the governor men are suit gets sued or whatever over this thing -- that thing you know Wi-Fi.

It's new being or.

You know different things so I asked him about it and they said.

We will not use this information at target ads no human will -- this.

But today there's a little cartridges broken -- because.

Some folks -- gonna read the legal fine print of there they have a unified privacy policy that covers all their products.

And if you read it literally and you say well it applies to this thing which is your content that -- paying them to store up there.

I'm it would allow them to display it it would allow them -- modified it would allowed them to both.

For Mitt publicly.

And so -- right have been inquiring of Google this morning and I just got a phone call before we went on from a Google PR person saying -- we'll get to Fuller response but we just want you to know that.

This privacy policies meant to cover all our products and wasn't really written with this in mind and by the way our competitors have similar things in their privacy.

Explain that I -- I thought because I've been thinking about this a little bit just with all.

To my wife and I share pictures on the iPad -- stuff sticks of you know it -- now with them.

Takes a picture automatically goes a -- that -- fills up fairly quickly so I've been thinking which products should we get to store it.

But so -- and I I kind of assume privacy is a thing of the past you know everything's on FaceBook but not with pictures of my kids are things like that mean that shouldn't market.

She's not a thing of the past them leniency if it's -- -- different but it's not a thing of the past and you should have I believe you should have an expectation -- a particularly on.

You -- -- locker where it's storing your documents if that's what this is now.

By the way I should point out that.

Some.

Blogs which have read that the terms the policy terms on some of the competing.

Lockers claimed -- not there not similar to the school terms I don't know I haven't sorted this out I just don't know.

But I would tell you what I believe what I believe is.

They should have the right to kind of process the document in such a way that.

They can search it better that they can -- actually.

You know.

Do you know what you view it accurately and whatever they need to do Francis.

-- put a video -- it's actually nice feature you can put a video and almost any common format.

Windows formats Mac formats and and -- wolf.

Kind of trans coded so complain -- in Google drive that's a good teacher -- and that does require them to manipulate your document.

But.

I don't want them to have the right to take your video and use it somewhere else -- and you could read that legal language that way so they're gonna have to answer -- Talk out for like six -- past I think.

It gets changed I mean I'm willing to give up some but I think it's what I meant but I not all of it -- -- -- -- so.

Sentiments so so you breathe -- you're not sending text Connell of your self in various stages of you know.

That's not have to check the markets have got Thomas capacity and everything and it was so good it's great to be happy.

Well written a column about it guys -- -- a deep detail about -- Google's new drive back like a price though you know for those texts or whatever -- -- more on Enron company.

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