Amazon Cloud: All Your Files Are Belong to Us
Categories: Technology
The advantage to technology companies of writing excessively long user agreements is that most people won't take the time to read them. In Amazon's case, however, the company elected to include a relatively short (by normal standards) user agreement for its new Cloud service, that is actually readable.
Awesome, right? Yes. Until you read it.
Under the header "Storing Your Files on the Service" item 5.2 reads:
5.2 Our Right to Access Your Files. You give us the right to access, retain, use and disclose your account information and Your Files: to provide you with technical support and address technical issues; to investigate compliance with the terms of this Agreement, enforce the terms of this Agreement and protect the Service and its users from fraud or security threats; or as we determine is necessary to provide the Service or comply with applicable law.
Certainly gives new meaning to the term "file sharing."
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