re Yale switching to Google Apps / Gmail

[Dave 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:
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> https://jprod.its.vanderbilt.edu/apps1/vugmail/
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> The FAQ regarding Vanderbilt’s switch can be found here:
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> http://its.vanderbilt.edu/gmail/faq
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> Amazingly, there is no specific privacy policy in place for the  
> relationship between the university and Google.
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> However, I’ll note that the university only did this for the undergr 
> aduate body.  The graduate students, faculty, and staff on the other 
>  hand are not being offered this service because:
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> “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.”
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> I understand that they want to take advantage of google’s infrastruc 
> ture, but what worries me (and I’m speaking here without seeing the  
> contract between the university and Google) is that the university m 
> ay not be able to protect / act on behalf of the students – especial 
> ly with respect to subpoenas.
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> -brad
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> 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>
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> Date: February 9, 2010 5:48:58 PM EST
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> To: Discussion of Free Culture - FC-Discuss <discuss () freeculture org>
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> Subject: [FC-discuss] Yale switching to Google Apps / Gmail
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> Reply-To: Discussion of Free Culture in general and this  
> organization in particular <discuss () freeculture org>
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> Hey folks,
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> 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.
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> http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2010/02/09/google-run-yale-e-mail/
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> 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.
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> Thanks a bunch,
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> -Adi
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