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UC Davis Drops Gmail for Campus Wide Student Use Over Privacy Issues

UC Davis ended a pilot that could have led the university outsourcing student e-mail to the G-mail service over privacy concerns. The letter to the Google formally ending the pilot project specifically expressed that the campus commitment to privacy of communications was not shared by the company.

Exclusive: Gmail Ditched By Major University ', InformationWeek, By Paul McDougall, May 5, 2010