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I know we all love to hate Google, but my impression is they take the privacy of email extremely seriously at this point (eg, no longer using it for ads).
Sure, I don't trust Google that much and I know others trust their brand even less, but is there hard evidence of misuse of Gmail user data?
Now let's ban MSFT Office365 too. It's of zero use to teach whatever to the kids.
I'd have to disagree here. Teaching kids how to use Word and Excel will help them for the majority of office jobs out there.
I've been thinking of ditching Gmail for myself and my business, but what true alternatives are there? I already have O365, but am not particular keen on using Exchange. I'm basically only using Gmail and Calendar. Any e-mail providers based out of the EU, worth mentioning?
Now let's ban MSFT Office365 too. It's of zero use to teach whatever to the kids.
I've been thinking of ditching Gmail for myself and my business, but what true alternatives are there? I already have O365, but am not particular keen on using Exchange. I'm basically only using Gmail and Calendar. Any e-mail providers based out of the EU, worth mentioning?
Now let's ban MSFT Office365 too. It's of zero use to teach whatever to the kids.
I'd have to disagree here. Teaching kids how to use Word and Excel will help them for the majority of office jobs out there.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Plenty of open source options that will teach them 90% of what most people will need to know. Taxpayer money should not be going to these corporations.
Nothing really compares to Excel. (Nothing really compares to Excel in some of its most terrible bugs either).
I’m sure there are some genuine Excel experts out there doing important work but I’ve got to assume most of what’s being done is formulas, charts and pivot tables.
How concretely-grounded are these privacy concerns? I know we all love to hate Google, but my impression is they take the privacy of email extremely seriously at this point (eg, no longer using it for ads). Sure, I don't trust Google that much and I know others trust their brand even less, but is there hard evidence of misuse of Gmail user data?
This is basically European protectionism under the guise of privacy. My guess is that within a few years (or even sooner), you will be reading about a massive breach of student data from whatever alternative they choose to go with.
if if it's just that, it's pretty easy to solve, don't you think so? The EU is leading on privacy, no doubt, or better: the EU is (finally, and really a bit too late) doing something while, afaik, the US is almost doing nothing (except for CA).
I hope the EU is able to slowly write down easy to implement rules other countries can just cut & paste