Vincent Arnold

Commentary: Not surprising in the least…Anytime you leave your information for someone else to secure, this will be the risk you run. Most people won’t get a clue until it’s too late and they hear a knock on thier door…But hey, if you are not doing anything wrong, what have you got to hide right?

SIMON AVERY

From Monday’s Globe and Mail

March 24, 2008 at 4:05 AM EDT

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.

Eighteen months ago, Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont., had an outdated computer system that was crashing daily and in desperate need of an overhaul. A new installation would have cost more than $1-million and taken months to implement. Google’s service, however, took just 30 days to set up, didn’t cost the university a penny and gave nearly 8,000 students and faculty leading-edge software, said Michael Pawlowski, Lakehead’s vice-president of administration and finance.

Source: Globe and Mail

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