Yale Delays Move To Gmail · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @08:13AM 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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Re:Know what... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-03-31 08:55 · Score: 0, Troll

May I know the name of your law firm?
Re:Know what... by vux984 · 2010-03-31 09:36 · Score: 0, Troll

Even google's liability may be limited as they can claim common carrier.
Their ability to claim they are a common carrier is almost categorically absurd.