GOOGLE in Trouble Over Data Security Involving Patriot Act

Organisations and individuals using Google's applications suite have no right to data privacy, a case in arbitration has shown. Lakehead University in Canada was one of the first large-scale adopters of Google applications, but a storm has broken out after staff were told not to use it for personal or sensitive information. The problem arises because the information is stored on Google's servers in the US where authorities have the right to read everything Google stores under the Patriot Act. Read more...

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Google Inc. is a year into its ground-shifting strategy to change the way people communicate and work. But the initiative to reinvent the way that people use software is running headlong into another new phenomenon of the information technology age: the unprecedented powers of security officials in the United States to conduct surveillance on communications.

Posted by Editor at March 27, 2008 04:23 PM