Comments on: Google struggles to defend Apps security http://insidegoogle.com/2010/06/google-struggles-to-defend-apps-security/ A Consumer Watchdog Investigation Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:49:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Today’s Recommended Reads « Google Monitor http://insidegoogle.com/2010/06/google-struggles-to-defend-apps-security/comment-page-1/#comment-258 Today’s Recommended Reads « Google Monitor Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:11:46 +0000 http://insidegoogle.com/?p=5430#comment-258 [...] Google struggles to defend Apps security [...] [...] Google struggles to defend Apps security [...]

]]> By: Canuk http://insidegoogle.com/2010/06/google-struggles-to-defend-apps-security/comment-page-1/#comment-257 Canuk Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:39:33 +0000 http://insidegoogle.com/?p=5430#comment-257 The Universities did not drop Google because of any obvious security breaches - its based on 'concerns' from faculty and staff. Students at UC Davis are using google. A lot of the privacy concerns that has been raised about google are more about perception than anything else - there is mention of the "patriot act" in almost every argument against going to the cloud. The reality is that the act applies whether data is in the cloud or stored locally. The Universities did not drop Google because of any obvious security breaches – its based on ‘concerns’ from faculty and staff.
Students at UC Davis are using google.

A lot of the privacy concerns that has been raised about google are more about perception than anything else – there is mention of the “patriot act” in almost every argument against going to the cloud. The reality is that the act applies whether data is in the cloud or stored locally.

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