Google's Privacy Policy is one of the creepier sides to Gmail. Signing up to Gmail means consenting to a Terms of Services agreement containing some dubious fine print. Namely, signing up to Gmail means giving Google permission to scan and collect data used for targeted Google advertisements.
Google's Privacy Policy is one of the creepier sides to Gmail. Signing up to Gmail means consenting to a Terms of Services agreement containing some dubious fine print. Namely, signing up to Gmail means giving Google permission to scan and collect data used for targeted Google advertisements.
The Gmail Privacy Policy openly acknowledges this:
We use the information we collect from all of our services to provide, maintain, protect and improve them, to develop new ones, and to protect Google and our users. We also use this information to offer you tailored content -- like giving you more relevant search results and ads.
This means that if a business chooses Google Apps to host their mail services, then the volume of sensitive information that could be accessed by Google is frightening. The terms of the Privacy Policy do not guarantee the safety of a user's information.
For businesses that are serious about system security, Gmail is simply not an option. This is one of the many reasons our engineers at National Technologies do not recommend Google Apps, but rather prefer to implement Office 365 for our clients.
Office 365 does not collect your information. Here's what the Microsoft Privacy Policy says about data-mining:
We do not mine your data for advertising purposes. It is our policy to not use your data for purposes other than providing you productivity services.
At NTG, we would rather you don't have to deal with the security risks of data-mining at all, which is why we support an ethical exchange services provider like Microsoft.
This dramatic reenactment of Gmail's ethics around data collection gives you all the information you need to choose between the two email services. In a jingle.
If you'd like to hear a thousand more reasons for choosing Office 365 over Google, you can read more about the debate over on our website. You can also give us a call, and the National Technologies team will be happy to give you a run-down of what sets Office 365 apart from other cloud products in the market.
