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Complaint Challenges Univ. of Hawaii Email Partnership Wth Google

Posted by timothy on from the no-I-will-not-hang-loose-you-fascists dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A recent move by the University of Hawaii forcing all students and faculty to migrate their independent university email accounts to Google has raised serious questions, prompting one student to file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education, with senior faculty questioning both the implementation and scope of this partnership." One of the stranger notes: a clause, defended as standard, naming Google a "school official" of the university.

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  1. Sounds like shilling by bky1701 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If my Community College can get away with forcing (it is actually required you use it) all students and faculty to use Hotmail, which works properly on precisely zero of my three main computers, I don't see how Gmail warrants a shitfit for any reason other than some MS bribery.

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  2. Re:My old Uni did this. by ajuda · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I logged in for the first time in years to say this:

    If you are dealing with confidential data, you should not be emailing it in plain text. EVER.

    Even if your server isn't mining the data, someone on the other end (or someone in between) could too.

    Would you feel comfortable having your social security number being sent over yahoo/hotmail/random university email?