--- title: Google: Why New Unlimited Photo Storage is Free description: Where millennials get their news, attacking truancy in Texas, information warfare in Russia, the dark side of Google Photos and more. canonical: https://time.com/3904754/google-photos-free-storage/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-02T16:01:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:03:14.387Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why Google's New Unlimited Photo Storage is Free og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3904754/google-photos-free-storage/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Google's New Unlimited Photo Storage is Free twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why Google's New Unlimited Photo Storage Is Free by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 2, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 2, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Use Google’s new unlimited photo storage and you — and your data — are the real product.**](http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/01/google-photos-reminder-smile-its-free-youre-the-product/) By Natasha Lomas in TechCrunch **2\.** [**Truancy can cost schools millions. Here’s how San Antonio cut it in half.**](http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/6/2/how-san-antonio-is-solving-the-truancy-problem.html) By Jyoti Thottam in Al Jazeera America **3\.** [**Want to contain Putin? Help Russians get real news.**](http://www.realclearworld.com/blog/2015/06/putin%5Ffears%5Fhis%5Fown%5Fpeople%5F111234.html) By Kaj Leers in Real Clear World **4\.** [**Make the SAT fair by letting everyone prep for free.**](http://www.wired.com/2015/06/khan-academy-sat-prep/) By Jason Tanz in Wired **5\.** [**Facebook is now America’s top news network — for millennials.**](http://www.journalism.org/2015/06/01/facebook-top-source-for-political-news-among-millennials/) By Amy Mitchell, Jeffrey Gottfried and Katerina Eva Matsa at the Pew Research Center  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3904754/google-photos-free-storage/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3904754/google-photos-free-storage/"},"headline":"Why Google's New Unlimited Photo Storage Is Free","datePublished":"2015-06-02T16:01:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:03:14.387Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3904754/google-photos-free-storage/","keywords":["Innovation","putin","Millennials","facebook","SAT"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3904754/google-photos-free-storage/","name":"Why Google's New Unlimited Photo Storage Is Free"}}]}] ```