Re: Google announces privacy changes, no opt out for users

[H Morrow Long <morrow.long () YALE EDU>]

Google's new privacy change will apparently not affect Education, Government nor Enterprise business customers (at 
least not right away anyway).
As long as we have current contracts.

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Google says privacy change won't affect government users

Company downplays privacy, security concerns from former federal IT official

By Jaikumar Vijayan
January 26, 2012 05:02 PM ET
1 Comment
  
Computerworld - Google today dismissed concerns by a former senior federal IT official that the company's controversial 
new privacy policy would create problems for customers of Google Apps for Government (GAFG).

In a statement, Google said the new policy will not change existing contracts that define how it handles and stores 
data belonging to government users of its cloud services. "Enterprise customers using Google Apps for Government, 
Business or Education have individual contracts that define how we handle and store their data," Amit Singh, vice 
president of Google Enterprise said in a statement.

"As always, Google will maintain our enterprise customers' data in compliance with the confidentiality and security 
obligations provided to their domain," he said.

According to Singh, Googles contractual agreements have always superseded its privacy policy for enterprise customers.


On Jan 26, 2012, at 1:11 PM, H Morrow Long wrote:

> I think we need to hear from Google.
>
> Part of the rationale for the current change is that Google wants to reduce the # of different privacy policies they 
> have (for different products).
>
> Morrow
>
>
> On Jan 26, 2012, at 12:56 PM, Jesse Thompson wrote:
>
> > I don't see any indication that the changes to the generic policy are trumped by the edu-apps policy.  But, I'm no 
> > lawyer.
> >
> > http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/edu/privacy.html
> >
> > Jesse
> >
> > On 1/26/12 11:08 AM, Joel Rosenblatt wrote:
> > > I asked the question also and was told (not by google) that this only
> > > applies to their consumer apps, not core Google Apps for Edu
> > >
> > > Have you contacted google to confirm this?
> > >
> > > Joel
> > >
> > > --On Wednesday, January 25, 2012 12:56 PM -0500 Morrow Long
> > > <morrow.long () YALE EDU> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Read it & trying to determine what this means for Yale.
> > > >
> > > > We outsource many of our studen
> > > >
> > > > Sent from my iPhonet email accts to Google now (though our branded
> > > > gmail does not have Google targeted ads shown alongside the messages).
> > > >
> > > > Morrow
> > > >
> > > > On Jan 25, 2012, at 10:44 AM, Nicole Kegler <nk278 () georgetown edu> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Has anyone read this article about the privacy changes being
> > > > > implemented by Google starting March 1? What are your thoughts?
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/google-tracks-consumers-across-products-users-cant-opt-out/2012/01/24/gIQArgJHOQ_story.html?hpid=z3
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Nicole Kegler
> > > > > Communications Manager
> > > > > University Information Security Office
> > > > > Georgetown University
> > > > > 202-687-5784
> > > > >
> > > > > Protecting data is a shared responsibility!
> > > > >
> > > > > INSTALL antivirus and antispyware software.
> > > > > USE strong passwords.
> > > > > KNOW who you are dealing with online.
> > > > > STORE confidential and sensitive data on encrypted devices only.
> > > > > SHUT DOWN computers or disconnect from the Internet when it's not in
> > > > > use.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
> > > Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
> > > Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
> > > http://www.columbia.edu/~joel
> > > Public PGP key
> > > http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x90BD740BCC7326C3