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Google One now offers free phone backups up to 15GB on Android and iOS – TechCrunch:
Google One, Google’s subscription program for buying additional storage and live support, is getting an update today that will bring free phone backups for Android and iOS devices to anybody who installs the app — even if they don’t have a paid membership. The catch: While the feature is free, the backups count against your free Google storage allowance of 15GB. If you need more you need — you guessed it — a Google One membership to buy more storage or delete data you no longer need. Paid memberships start at $1.99/month for 100GB.
Last year, paid members already got access to this feature on Android, which stores your texts, contacts, apps, photos and videos in Google’s cloud. The “free” backups are now available to Android users. iOS users will get access to it once the Google One app rolls out on iOS in the near future.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 01 2020, @04:16PM
(errr ... right of way monopolists with respect to cableco companies not pharmaceuticals *)
I'm not saying Google is perfect but when compared to the companies that regulators mostly leave alone Google is a saint. The real victimizers are the ISPs, pharmaceutical corporations and other companies that abuse patent law to price gouge, taxi cab medallion monopolists, the copy'right' cartel that would overcharge for content and has lobbied to extend copy'right' to destroy culture out of their selfish desire to control the narrative, etc... Those are the ones congress should really go after. They are the true villains.
If Congress really cared about the consumer their first order of business would be to fix copy'right' law not to go after Google and Amazon for relatively small reasons.
The following needs to be changed.
Copy'right' should be renamed. It's not a right, it's a privilege. Find an appropriate name.
The lengths should be substantially reduced retroactively.
The penalty structure needs to be less one sided. Infringement penalties shouldn't be so ridiculous. False takedown penalties should be more meaningful
It should be opt-in with a copy residing with the library of congress so it can be publicly available when it does hit the public domain.
This is a FAR more important issue than what Congress is doing against Google. If Congress even cared in the slightest about the consumer they would fix other things that are more important. Instead they look like they are trying to actively break the one thing that seems to be working for the consumer. To be clear their motives are nefarious and possibly outright malicious.