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In other words it's nothing at all like a fee, as you described it earlier.

But, if things are as you say, Google can do whatever it likes with the data according to the ToS. If people don't like data about them being given to the Government, or used for any other undisclosed purpose, they shouldn't have used Google.



It sounds like a fee to me. That is the price that Google asks for admission to its services -- access to the data that you transfer whilst using Google services. Monetary fees are also contractually specified. I'm not sure why you think that just because the "fee" is non-monetary that you have to transfer all ownership rights in whole, instead of those defined as the price of entry in the contracts agreed to upon account registration.


When you pay a fee, you don't have any rights to limit what's done with the money after you've handed it over.




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