Google Drive will hit a billion users this week

When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through Google Drive, you give Google 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. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our services, and to develop new ones.

They're asserting the right to publish and publicly display anything you put on Drive for the purpose of promoting Google products.

Dropbox TOS: [2]:

We need your permission to do things like hosting Your Stuff, backing it up, and sharing it when you ask us to. Our Services also provide you with features like photo thumbnails, document previews, commenting, easy sorting, editing, sharing, and searching. These and other features may require our systems to access, store, and scan Your Stuff. You give us permission to do those things, and this permission extends to our affiliates and trusted third parties we work with.

Accessing, storing, and scanning feels reasonable though not thrilled about "affiliates."

iCloud Drive's TOS [3]:

...by submitting or posting such Content on areas of the Service that are accessible by the public or other users with whom you consent to share such Content, you grant Apple a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Service solely for the purpose for which such Content was submitted or made available, without any compensation or obligation to you.

Apple claims the right to publish your content only if you choose to share it, and solely for the sharing purpose.

Google's really out of line here!

1: https://www.google.com/drive/terms-of-service/

2: https://www.dropbox.com/terms

3: https://www.apple.com/ca/legal/internet-services/icloud/en/t...