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Australian university dumps Google for Microsoft over data hosting location concerns

Posted on September 30, 2015 by pogowasright.org

Peter Sayer reports:

It’s little surprise that European governments prefer to host their data in Europe than in the U.S. — but now even Australian academics are expressing a preference for the Old World over the New.

On Monday, the CIO of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, told staff that Google can no longer be entrusted with their email and calendars because it plans to host them in the U.S., and not the European Union.

Read more on PCWorld.

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