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I still question the wisdom of giving data to the worlds largest spyware company that makes its money by converting mass surveillance into dollars.

• judge2020 4y ago
  Hosting your own servers for email and business files is infinitely more costly from a performance, uptime, and personnel standpoint, and self-hosted office with network shares is not suitable for most businesses' needs of multi-user collaboration (sure, you can use Office / M365 desktop apps which do collaboration, but then you're forced to use the desktop apps). Google Workspace solves the issues of data privacy both by having extreme user data & datacenter access controls[0,1], a robust terms document that details how data is collected and used[2], and enterprise customers can access an audit report that details what and when things are accessed by Google employees[3]. 0: https://storage.googleapis.com/gfw-touched-accounts-pdfs/google-cloud-security-and-compliance-whitepaper.pdf https://storage.googleapis.com/gfw-touched-accounts-pdfs/goo... 1: https://workspace.google.com/security/ https://workspace.google.com/security/ 2: https://workspace.google.com/terms/premier_terms.html https://workspace.google.com/terms/premier_terms.html 3: https://support.google.com/a/answer/9230474?hl=en https://support.google.com/a/answer/9230474?hl=en