Google Workspace Blog
googleforwork.blogspot.com · Company blog · on HN since 2014
Google's official blog for its business products, covering Google Apps, G Suite, Chromebooks, and Android for Work announcements.
What HN saysHN commenters cite it for product details, such as government cloud offerings, Chromebook signage use, and the removal of ad scanning in education Gmail.
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icebraining · 2015-05-06
https://www.google.com/work/apps/government/
Google has a dedicated cloud environment for governmental agencies: http://googleforwork.blogspot.pt/2009/09/google-apps-and-government.ht…
spankalee · 2015-03-31
I'm pretty sure it'll be good at that :)
For dashboards and kiosks, there might be of use:
https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/3134673?hl=en
http://googleforwork.blogspot.com/2015/03/screens-go-Google-at-the-Dig…
wfjackson · 2014-11-11
From http://googleforwork.blogspot.com/2014/04/protecting-students-with-goo…
>removed all ads scanning in Gmail for Apps for Education, which means Google cannot collect or use student data in Apps for Education services for advertising purposes.
>We’re also making similar changes for all our Google Apps customers, including Business, Government and for legacy users of the free version, and we’ll provide an update when the rollout is complete.
I believe the data gathered was used to target ads shown in other Google properties, like YouTube, and that Content OneBox was scanning all emails. See this:
>The plaintiffs allege that Google has employed such practices since around 2010, when it began using a new technology, known as Content Onebox, that allows the company to intercept and scan emails before they reach their intended recipients, rather than after messages are delivered to users’ inboxes, regardless of whether ads are turned off.
Looks like the ads checkbox applied to only ads being shown in Apps, not to the data being collected from the emails on the backend to build ad profiles.