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Oof.

In this case, it's likely (IANAL, nor are you) that each individual user of the service would be described as a vendor selling access to their data. The data itself is not created for Google's (or Facebook's in that previous case) consumption. The users of the service were selling rights and were not producing anything for hire.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-a-vendo...

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/248665/contracto...

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This is becoming tedious. I'm out.



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