Google Drive: The truth about data ownership

When launching Google Drive, Google proudly proclaimed the storage cloud service as being a place where you can "create, share, collaborate, and keep all of your work" and added that you can "upload and access all of your files, including videos, photos, Google Docs, PDFs and beyond". What it didn't make quite such a loud fuss about were the terms and conditions that you have to agree to when signing up to use the Google Drive service and which, in part, state: “When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide licence to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes that we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content.”