27 Mar
2012
27 Mar
'12
8:47 a.m.
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012, Mark Rogers wrote:
I am not at all convinced that were Google['s servers] based in the UK that they would be in breach of any UK law, and assuming they could come up with a service that kept within the law here I'm sure most of the people who don't trust them now still wouldn't then!
Not only _could_ they come up with a service that kept within the law as it would apply to servers in the UK, they _do_ come up with such a service for some of their corporate customers, under "safe harbour agreements". See, for example, paragraphs 1.6-1.10 of http://www.ucs.cam.ac.uk/googleapps/google-apps-cambridge-contract.pdf. But AIUI, you don't get protections like that with a standard personal gmail account.