back to article Macquarie academics send Gmail a ‘Dear John’ letter

Macquarie University says it will drop Gmail after The Chocolate Factory decided to move its data storage from Europe to the United States. A notice warning staff of the change, from the university’s chief information officer Dr Mary Davies, says the move was prompted by data security fears. In its place the university will …

  1. Kiwi
    WTF?

    Wait...WHAT?

    So they're going from Google, who love to spy and collect data and now have moved their storage from relatively safe otherplaces to the US, to MS with data stored in Oz - MS who have just recently had the scandal with sneakily inserting spyware into Win7 and H8, and with all the stuff in 8 and 10 (like "give my photo and other personal data to advertising firms").. And with the apparent looming data snaffling laws in Oz, they want the data stored there?

    WTF??

    I always knew Ozzies were a weird bunch but... Bloody hell....

  2. frank ly

    But ....

    ... the Australian security/spy organisations share all their pickings with the other 5-Eyes countries, so what's the point?

  3. crediblywitless

    Or they could, y'know, do their own IT. There must be 40-odd thousand users.

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