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Re:Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data by rhizome on Thursday December 05, 2013 @04:37PM (#6857452)
A person who lived by this "technical" principle would likely find that their friends no longer wanted to loan them anything. After all, there is no "inherent obligation" for you to return anything, right?
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Re:Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data by MBlume on Thursday December 05, 2013 @04:46PM (#6857504)
What? Yes, there is, that's what "loan" means.
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Re:Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data by rhizome on Thursday December 05, 2013 @06:04PM (#6858061)
It's only because data does not have legal status as property. It doesn't keep people from feeling a similar degree of ownership over the data they store with Google et al, though, and I think it points to a democratic desire for these data-retrieval acts and implementations to be more than goodwill. The third-party doctrine is only a convention, after all.
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