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Yale Delays Move To Gmail

Posted by timothy on from the but-it's-in-the-cloud dept.

Mortimer.CA writes "The Yale Daily News is reporting that the move to Gmail has been postponed. After further consultations with faculty and staff, the concerns raised 'fell into three main categories: problems with "cloud computing" (the transfer of information between virtual servers on the Internet), technological risks and downsides, and ideological issues.' In the latter category, 'Google was not willing to provide ITS with a list of countries to which the University's data could be sent [i.e., replicated], but only a list of about 15 countries to which the data would not be sent.'"

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  1. Re:Know what... by John+Hasler · · Score: 5, Interesting

    > ...does that mean I've committed a child porn crime?

    No, because _you_ have done nothing inside USA jurisdiction. It may mean Google has, though.

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  2. Re:Know what... by QuantumRiff · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I would be more worried about "If I'm Dutch, and doing something at a research lab at my university" whether its corporate funded, military, or maybe medical research with client data included... Would a nosy sheriff of a county with a large, competing university in the US be able to subpoena my emails, since it might be stored in the US servers?

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