How private is your staff and students’ data when it is stored with a commercial cloud provider?
Will students and teachers be targeted with advertising, based on the content of their emails and documents stored in the cloud?
Who owns ‘your’ data, once it is stored on a remote server, possibly in another country? Can you retrieve your data when moving to another provider?
Below are links to the Terms and Conditions and the Privacy Policies of popular cloud service providers used in schools…
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| Google Apps for Education | |
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| Microsoft | |
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| Apple iCloud | |
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| Dropbox | |
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