

There's also concern that the government's current wiretapping activities exceed what the law allows, as CNET's Declan McCullagh reported earlier this week. In particular, ISPs are concerned about hackers exploiting any back doors the services would be required to build into their products to accommodate such government demands. In a post that appeared yesterday on Thomson Reuters News & Insight, Joseph Menn and Mark Hosenball explain the Obama administration's proposal for facilitating such access and the technical and security hurdles it must overcome. The Internet services claim that providing such access when a court orders it is anything but easy. government is pressuring Google and other online services to allow law enforcement to tap e-mail, VOIP calls, text messages, and other Internet communications just as they do standard telephone calls, requiring only a court order to do so.
#Does boxcryptor work on a mac license#
Google's terms of service include the following: When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. When Google changed its terms of service last year, the company granted itself and any other company it chooses complete, unfettered access to anonymized (we hope) versions of all the messages you send and receive via Gmail, all the files you upload to Google Drive, and all the terms you enter in the Google search box.Īs CNET's Rafe Needleman reported in April 2012, Google's rights go beyond simply perusing your personal information. It's no secret that any information you provide to a Google service is no secret.

Encrypt files you store on Google Drive or other cloud-storage service by adding a BoxCryptor subfolder to the storage service's folder on your system.
