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What is the change in "Terms of Service that Google is referring to?

Asked by flo (13313points) February 24th, 2020

“We’re updating our Terms of Service. Get to know our new Terms before they take effect on March 31, 2020.”
Added: I’m asking the parts I read sound nothing new to me.

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rebbel's avatar

“We added Google Chrome, Google Chrome OS, and Google Drive to the list of services that the Terms apply to. With this change, these services are governed by the Terms of Service and also a smaller set of service-specific additional terms.”

rebbel's avatar

You are welcome, @flo.

elbanditoroso's avatar

I read an article that summarized the changes as being largely UK/Brexit based.

Britain used to be under EU Privacy laws (GDPR and all that).

Now Britain is under Google’s default privacy regulations (US) which are somewhat weaker than Europe’s.

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flo's avatar

Ok. By the way, what does the C stand for in the T&C? Shouldn’tit be T&S?

elbanditoroso's avatar

Terms and Conditions

flo's avatar

oops.

Darth_Algar's avatar

Even if they only change one minor word in the ToS they’re going to inform their users. Otherwise anyone could claim that they didn’t agree to the current terms. That’s just the old legal doctrine of “cover your ass” there.

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