Re: Yale switching to Google Apps / Gmail

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Malin, Bradley A" <b.malin () Vanderbilt Edu>
Date: February 10, 2010 2:46:17 PM EST
To: <dave () farber net>, <adikamdar () gmail com>
Subject: RE: [IP] Yale switching to Google Apps / Gmail

Actually, Vanderbilt did this last year:
https://jprod.its.vanderbilt.edu/apps1/vugmail/
 
The FAQ regarding Vanderbilt’s switch can be found here:
http://its.vanderbilt.edu/gmail/faq
 
Amazingly, there is no specific privacy policy in place for the relationship between the university and Google. 
 
However, I’ll note that the university only did this for the undergraduate body.  The graduate students, faculty, and 
staff on the other hand are not being offered this service because:
“Our immediate focus is to provide access to Gmail accounts for our undergraduates. The scope of the service offering 
may be reassessed as appropriate in the future.” 
 
I understand that they want to take advantage of google’s infrastructure, but what worries me (and I’m speaking here 
without seeing the contract between the university and Google) is that the university may not be able to protect / act 
on behalf of the students – especially with respect to subpoenas. 
 
-brad
 
 
From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:32 PM
To: ip
Subject: [IP] Yale switching to Google Apps / Gmail
 
 
 
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From: Adi Kamdar <adikamdar () gmail com>
Date: February 9, 2010 5:48:58 PM EST
To: Discussion of Free Culture - FC-Discuss <discuss () freeculture org>
Subject: [FC-discuss] Yale switching to Google Apps / Gmail
Reply-To: Discussion of Free Culture in general and this organization in particular <discuss () freeculture org>

Hey folks,
 
The Yale Daily News ran an article today about how there's almost-definite talk about Yale switching to Google Apps for 
Education and using Google servers/software to host our email.
 
http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2010/02/09/google-run-yale-e-mail/
 
I was wondering if you guys had any thoughts or good literature on the issues with this (re privacy, data, costs, 
security, tech, law, etc.). For the most part, the students are overjoyed about this since our old email system is 
painful to use, so it'd be nice to address usability issues as well.
 
Thanks a bunch,

-Adi
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