Lazy Ass Google Lawyers: All Your Chrome Files Were Belonged To Us

Davey Winder
Monday, 08 September 2008 15:11

IT Industry - Strategy

And the reason for the clause? You will love this. According to Rebecca Ward, Senior Product Counsel for Google Chrome:

"In order to keep things simple for our users, we try to use the same set of legal terms (our Universal Terms of Service) for many of our products. Sometimes, as in the case of Google Chrome, this means that the legal terms for a specific product may include terms that don't apply well to the use of that product."

Yep, you read that right. The problem occurred because lazy ass bastards in the Google legal department have been cutting and pasting terms and conditions between products.

Mind you, as Valleywag points out, Google is not alone in the stupid terms and conditions hall of shame.

How about Facebook which still has this little beauty alive and running:

"By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise..."

Know of any more? Name 'em and shame 'em here...