Comments on: Google Apps: 17 days to go… http://www.port.ac.uk/uopnews/2012/11/30/google-apps-17-days-to-go/ News from the University of Portsmouth Tue, 12 Feb 2013 04:53:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Andrew Minter http://www.port.ac.uk/uopnews/2012/11/30/google-apps-17-days-to-go/#comment-8082 Andrew Minter Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:36:17 +0000 http://www.port.ac.uk/uopnews/?p=9152#comment-8082 My understanding is that Google comply with UK law and their directors have a legal responsibility to work in the interests of the shareholders. Google generously support education in the UK and charge commercial entities around £85,000 per year for the service we are getting for free. You shouldn't forward your email to an alternative account as this might put us in breach of the Data Protection Act 1998 and also make it hard to comply with the Freedom of Information Act 2000. My understanding is that Google comply with UK law and their directors have a legal responsibility to work in the interests of the shareholders. Google generously support education in the UK and charge commercial entities around £85,000 per year for the service we are getting for free.

You shouldn’t forward your email to an alternative account as this might put us in breach of the Data Protection Act 1998 and also make it hard to comply with the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

]]> By: Tony Chafer http://www.port.ac.uk/uopnews/2012/11/30/google-apps-17-days-to-go/#comment-7727 Tony Chafer Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:48:45 +0000 http://www.port.ac.uk/uopnews/?p=9152#comment-7727 Like many people in the UK I do not use Starbucks, Amazon or Google. They do not pay tax in this country and therefore deprive the Exchequer of money for public services such as education. In my view UoP should not be supporting such enterprises by adopting eg Google email. Can any colleague advise how I can avoid Google? Presumably I will have to forward email to an alternative account? Unless Groupwise can be maintained for those colleagues who do not wish to use Google? Like many people in the UK I do not use Starbucks, Amazon or Google. They do not pay tax in this country and therefore deprive the Exchequer of money for public services such as education. In my view UoP should not be supporting such enterprises by adopting eg Google email. Can any colleague advise how I can avoid Google? Presumably I will have to forward email to an alternative account? Unless Groupwise can be maintained for those colleagues who do not wish to use Google?

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