On 26/03/12 10:57, Chris Green wrote:
More relevant to our situation is that there is always going to be a certain amount of confidential information about people flowing back and forth in our E-Mails, this too should be protected by Data Protection.
OK, well this is a different (but perfectly valid) point.
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!
On 26/03/12 11:42, Dan wrote:
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012, Mark Rogers wrote:
Do I believe that any humans are reading my private email? No I don't
You're probably right that they _don't_, at least not now. But be aware that they _can_, and you'd have no legal redress, [...]
I think my point is that I can't see any circumstances under which this would ever be an issue, and I'm concerned (or at least curious) that other people have foreseen something that I haven't. I'm not trying to argue in Google's favour, rather trying to understand Google's detractors' point of view.
My "data" seems to me to be much more secure now than it was when I ran my own server which I never had the time to maintain properly - a few apt-get update's perhaps, but I feel that my data is safer with Google in much the same way I think my money is safer in a bank than under a mattress. And in terms of retaining full access to my data, I've never had any problems getting stuff out of Google that I've put in, so it's nothing like the walled gardens of the likes of Apple.
The points raised about whether or not I am in breach of UK law by allowing my business email to be managed on a non-UK hosted service is an interesting one though; does anyone have any pointers to relevant resources?
Mark