Google admits data mining student emails in its free education apps

Jeff Gould Peerstone Research via Safegov.org 1/31/2014

When it introduced a new privacy policy designed to improve its ability to target users with ads based on data mining of their online activities, Google said the policy didn’t apply to students using Google Apps for Education. But recent court filings by Google’s lawyers in a California […]

Snowden leak: Microsoft added Outlook.com backdoor for Feds

NSA praises Redmond for ‘collaborative teamwork’

Ian Thomson The Register [UK] 11th July 2013

There are red faces in Redmond after Edward Snowden released a new batch of documents from the NSA’s Special Source Operations (SSO) division covering Microsoft’s involvement in allowing backdoor access to its software to the NSA and others.

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