Italian universities started to sell students' privacy to big corps through email accounts

[Valentino Santori]

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Hi fellows,

I would like to report a very bad situation for student's privacy in
the public education system, here in Italy. Many universities, and as
far as I know even high schools, are migrating from self-hosted mail
servers to propietary, big-corp's owned email accounts. This without
any chance to refuse the creation of this account, because this is
created during the subscription to the faculty, and without any
privacy agreement.

I can report my personal experience and others I know:
Università Politecnica delle Marche (located in Ancona) used to adopt
a self-hosted Squirrelmail soultion, now It's migrating to Microsoft
Hotmail;
Università degli studi di Ferrara is using Gmail;
Università degli studi di Parma is using Gmail;
Università degli studi di Bologna is using Microsoft Hotmail.

In Italy laws are very strict in terms on privacy and I think that
since we are talking about a public service this issue It's even more
serious.
What's your opinion about? Can we move somehow?

Valentino Santori
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