Monday, September 21, 2009

Privacy Issues with Google Apps

As published in Read Write Web (and aggregated in the NY Times, which is an interesting turn of events in its own right):

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/whoops_students_going_google_get_to_read_each_others_email.php
http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2009/09/18/18readwriteweb-whoops-students-going-google-get-to-read-ea-12995.html

"A recent bug in Google Apps allowed students at several colleges to read each other's email
messages and some were even able to see another student's entire inbox.
The issue occurred at a small handful of colleges, admitted Rajen
Sheth, senior product manager for Google Apps, but he declined to say
how many other institutions were affected."

Cheers,

Bill

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