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Thank you for the questions @wherefore-whinnies 😊 I'll admit I'm not super excited to dig more deeply into Google's various legal documents, because it often feels like they intentionally try to make them as unclear and difficult to navigate as possible. I'll do some basic research to try to answer your questions, but I won't give any guarantees that I haven't missed something somewhere. (See also my final note below.)

Q1: Is the list of data included in any legally binding document? Can Google change it easily?

Generally, there are two (sometimes three) different kinds of documents to keep track of: the Terms of Service, and the Privacy Policy/Notice. Sometimes there are different versions of these for different products/services. (In Google's case, they also have additional pages and documents with various information - see my point about obscurity above...)

The ToS are the "contract", meaning they contain what Google and the user agree upon in relation to the service in question. The ToS are legally binding and can't be changed willy-nilly. In Google's case, they need to give users "reasonable notice" before they make any changes, unless the changes concern new products or urgent circumstances (source here).

Because it can be tricky to update the ToS, and because it's easier for Google to manage the ToS if they don't have to be updated for every little thing, they're usually as non-specific as possible.

Then there's the Privacy Policy, which is not a contract per se but can be viewed more as pure information about how Google process personal data. It's not a contract you need to enter into or agree to. Only when they ask for your consent do you actually need to "opt in" to a privacy notice (and then only to the parts that concern the processing they base on that consent). Still, they can't change the Privacy Policy however they want either. At least according to EU privacy laws, they need to inform users of material changes to the policy. I suspect it's the same in the US, but I can't swear on it.

The Privacy Policy needs to be specific. It has to list specifically which types of data are processed, for which specific purposes, etc. However, most companies (yes! most!) do not fulfill this requirement. They simply don't. (Hoo boy is privacy an interesting field to work in.) Google certainly does not fulfull it.

The third type of document that sometimes comes into play is the Data Processing Agreement, but that's only relevant for businesses, so I won't get into details on that here.

In any case, to answer your question: I have not been able to find the list of data in the Privacy Policy, but I'd consider the page where I found the list as part of Google's information about their privacy practices. That domain is also where they have their specific terms and privacy notice for Google Labs (although they are very brief). Chances are however that they wouldn't actively inform users if they made slight changes to which data they collect (they might update the info page, but not send out any emails about it).

However, even if they were to suddenly count the entire Google doc content as "input" (which I personally wouldn't worry about, it's very unlikely in my opinion), that doesn't mean that they can use that data for whatever they like. They still have to fit their use into what they say they do in the Privacy Policy as well as what they can do according to the copyright license granted to them in the ToS. (And that copyright license is restricted to a small number of use purposes which are all related to the delivery of the service as well as some marketing.)

Q2: Do we know what Google counts as publicly available?

In their ToS and Privacy Policy, they give examples such as newspapers, websites and online search results. I would bet money that they don't consider a shareable link as public - probably not even if you post the link somewhere public. My instinctive guess would be to say that the content itself has to be findable via web search.

This is the best answer from Google I can find (source here), seeming to indicate that my instinct was right:

There's also some related info here:

Q3: Is it common for big tech to do illegal stuff that could damage their reputation?

Speaking from a privacy perspective, it's common to take some risks with personal data. Examples I can give from experience include choosing not to give specific information about certain more intrusive processing (like exactly how much data is used in marketing/profiling), lumping consents together even though consent needs to be specific for each purpose, and using advertising cookies without fully valid consent. These risks are taken because the monetary/business gains outweigh the privacy risks, in the company's opinion. One part of considering the risk is also to estimate how likely it is for them to "get caught" doing this, but that's just one part of it, along with the consequences if they do get caught.

Taking these types of risks is a lot more prevalent in relation to private users. I rarely see such risks taken with regard to business clients - instead, it's not totally uncommon for companies to cooperate with business clients in order to adjust their services in more privacy friendly manners. For example, a group of schools in the Netherlands which used Google Workspace for Education managed to negotiate with Google a couple of years ago so that they would change the content of their contract to be more in line with applicable privacy laws in the EU. (Source)

There are many possible reasons for why this distinction between consumers and business clients exists, but one reason is the controllership of the data. In consumer services, Google is the data controller and ultimately decides what to do with the data and which risks they are willing to take. In business services, Google is just a data processor, while the client is the controller. Google can't make privacy decisions on their client's behalf, and it would be unreasonable for them to take risks without their client's input. If Google took a risk, the client would be liable for it.

However, even for private users, I'd say that a major thing such as using private user content to train AI models without explicitly informing users about it/asking for consent or - even more extreme - develop movies or TV shows based on that content, would be unheard of in the field. I don't have any hard sources on this but I just can't personally believe that Google would ever find it reasonable to do that, or worth the risk it would mean. I don't see how Google would be able to justify it to themselves. I can't make any guarantees, but then again, that's true in all fields everywhere regardless of applicable laws.

Q4: About that tweet

Like I wrote in my first reply, Google does seem to imply that the Labs feature may become more widely available in the future. Still, I wouldn't recommend being hasty about removing your stuff from Google Docs out of fear for what Google might do with your content/data.

Even if they do make the AI feature available for standalone services, I assume you'd still have to actively opt in, and even if you do opt in, and assuming the data list is correct, you'd be able to control which data Google collects by what you enter into the AI. Lastly, even if you were to share more information with Google than you'd liked, they couldn't legally use it for any other purposes than those stated in their ToS and Privacy Policy.

Frankly, if you don't believe that Google would comply with these restrictions and just use your data however they like, then you should also be concerned that they might have been doing that for years. Why implement a new feature to illegally collect data when they could just have had your private documents scraped anyway?

Final note

Before concluding this reply, I'll just take the opportunity to add that after making my first reply to op's post, I discovered that there is an additional type of Google Workspace service that is called "Individual". This also seems to be provided for a fee, similarly to the Enterprise version, and is also marketed as relevant for work rather than private uses, but the ToS imply that the service may be used for private/household purposes as well. Just wanted to add that this service exists since, if Google Labs is available for that service, it may be more relevant to the average Tumblr user to know about it. The ToS for Google Workspace Individual can be found here.

Hey, I usually don't make serious posts, but this one is a big deal to me and many other small creatives, so please read or spread the message, especially in light of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.

Google Labs is introducing a new ai that will just scrape your documents for ideas, plots, and other things to feed its algorithms. This information is stored SEPARATELY from your Google account. 

Google will be collecting this user data and have at their disposal the ability to have free scripts for any content they want to produce without giving a cent to the original authors of these scripts, novels, character organizers, fics, etc. that the ai would be heavily basing these generated stories on. But that's not all, these ai's are also showing these works to human reviewers in order to "help improve quality of products" sharing works without consent of the author with real actual people to see if the ai is responding well enought to the prompts and imput (aka the intire documents as this is a fully intagrated ai -_-)

The reason this is going to be so terrible is that not if but when Google decides to open a production company (youtube movies will be first but they likely will open another streaming platform) these scripts their ai wrote them are probably going to be almost wholly plagiarized from docs user content that was stolen, without paying an actual writer anything at all.

If you are at all creative in the slightest PLEASE get your work off of docs before the features are fully integrated, scrub your google drive, and move to another program. Mircosoft, Libre (free and open source) ANYTHING to protect your works and if possible move away from Google products generally. Use a different search engine even. I'm going to link two TikTok creators from who I found this information as well as a list of alternative products to use away from Google in hopes to avoid them. Make them feel the backlash. It doesn't matter if they already have your data take charge of your internet person and DON'T GIVE IN

Ecosia (browser)

DuckDuckGo (browser)

Microsoft Products (Not amazing but not drifting yet, I like the free version enough)

Libre Office (free & open source!!)

Waze (maps)

Please add on if you can any information or resources! Stay vigilant and stay informed

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Australians open wallets, hearts for fire-ravaged communities

Melbourne, Australia – This year, as fires have raged across Australia, consuming homes, farms and towns, people have rallied to help, raising tens of millions of dollars for affected families, volunteer firefighting units and wildlife devastated by the blazes.

An estimated 17 million hectares (42 million acres) have been burned, more than 6,000 buildings destroyed, and families in every state have been left devastated and homeless.

Amid the tragedy, Australians have stepped in.

In New South Wales, the Rural Fire Service has received donations that have now surpassed 50 million Australian dollars ($34.1m) said RFS spokesman James Morris.

The funds have come from everything from fire-helmets and donation buckets placed in local shops to celebrity GoFundMe campaigns, he said.

“In that good old Australian community spirit, people just want to get out and do their bit,” Morris told Al Jazeera. “But they can’t always physically assist or donate physical items. So their way of showing their support is through financial donations.”

‘Thank you for being our heroes’

Barbeques, fun runs, boot camps and benefit concerts, large and small have taken place across the country.

The Muslim community hosted barbeques for firefighters and displaced locals in fire-affected towns including Lakes Entrance, east of Melbourne, where one local tweeted that between four and five trucks of supplies had arrived and “the first round of snags are already cooked”.

The Lakes Entrance volunteer fire brigade have received some creative letters of thanks as well as supplies of baked goods.

Volunteer firefighters in Lake Entrance, Victoria have received muffins and handwritten letters from young children [Lakes Entrance VFA]

“You are so brave to fight fires. We are thanking you every day,” said one note signed by Grace.

“Thank you for being our heroes. You are the best,” said another.

Children have also been donating pocket money to their local fire brigades and one primary school student from Western Australia raised $500 and delivered half to the Lakes Entrance crew and half to the Save the Koala fund.

James Pendlebury, a call centre team manager in Melbourne, has been finding creative ways to raise funds in his office.

The team are fundraising in two-week cycles between victim relief, wildlife assistance and volunteer firefighter support. Among the initiatives so far have been raffles, bake-offs and an office artisans market.

“We wanted to give everyone a chance to be involved, including people who couldn’t afford to give money,” Pendlebury said.

The artisan’s market allowed people to show off their handiwork, with diverse items for sale including tote bags, homemade preserves and sauces, red wine vinegar and crocheted coasters.

“We’ve got a lot of talented people at work and a lot of different ideas can come out of people’s need to help,” Pendlebury said. “It’s just a very simple way of getting people encouraged … there’s a sense of accomplishment.”

They have so far raised 5,100 Australian dollars ($3,480).

“People get entrenched in the horror,” he said, “Knitting a beanie, making pouches for wildlife or something else which they feel is constructive helps people’s self-worth.”

Help for animals

John Grant of the wildlife group WIRES said they had been “overwhelmed by the generosity and concern for our wildlife from around the globe.”

He spoke of one fundraiser by Blue Mountains resident Joshua Elston, who has cerebral palsy, and his carer Hannah Shore.

“Joshua wanted to do something for the animals impacted by bushfires so he made cakes for a cake stall in Springwood,” Grant said. “It went up on the community Facebook page and the community rallied with even more cakes and slices.”

Last weekend, the cake stall raised 2,116 Australian dollars ($1,445).

Jacob Angelino, a volunteer firefighter in Victoria, said they have been delivering donated goods to areas affected by the fires for several weeks.

Joshua Elston, who helped raise thousands for wildlife group WIRES by organising a cake sale [WIRES/Al Jazeera]

“A lot of people are just buying things to try and help people get back up on their feet,” he told Al Jazeera.

“The other week, we picked up a huge delivery. Locals had put together trolleys full of supplies and they loaded the truck with heaps of slabs of water, long-life food, that sort of stuff for those people who were stuck in relief centres.”

Thousands of Australians have also opened their homes to evacuees and their pets.

After offering the paddocks behind her home to evacuees with animals via Twitter on New Year’s Eve, PhD student Erin Riley not only received requests, but also found more offers of accommodation flooding in.

Within days she created FindABed to match the now 6,500 offers of accommodation with those in need.

Celebrity fundraisers

Benefit concerts are also being used to raise funds as local bands play pub gigs and international stars including Alice Cooper, Olivia Newton-John, Queen and popular children’s group the Wiggles organise concerts in the coming weeks with all proceeds donated to fire relief causes.

US punk band Blink 182 released a line of merchandise specifically to raise funds for Australia’s wildlife, while actress Rebel Wilson auctioned a private lunch at her house for two fans and Shane Warne, a former international cricketer for Australia, raised more than one million Australian dollars by auctioning off his baggy green cap.

Some offices have held markets to raise funds for fire relief [James Pendlebury/Al Jazeera]

Many celebrities, including Chris Hemsworth, Elton John and Pink have publicly donated large sums to bushfire relief, while Australian comedian Celeste Barber’s Facebook fundraiser has raised more than 50 million Australian dollars ($34.14m).

Businessmen across the globe have also raised or pledged millions, while dozens of Australian companies have donated goods or percentages of their takings.

Stories of less conventional means have also spread via social media as some models offered nude photographs to those who donate, and a message to clients from an alleged local drug-dealer spread on social media after he promised to give 10 percent of the weekend’s earning to fire relief.

A lot of my family have been affected,” the circulated message read. “Not a joke. Actually being legit. Thank you all.”

For now, long-awaited rain is easing the situation in much of the country but the risk of new outbreaks will remain high throughout the summer.

The generosity of fellow Australians will go a long way to helping the long rebuilding process that lies ahead for so many families and communities, as well as the country’s unique wildlife.

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