* Valentino Santori:
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.
There is a privacy agreement, the question is whether you like it.
From a privacy perspective, the move from self-hosted mail service to
an external managed service might not be a regression. Few universities can afford the required resources to run secure mail servers and detect compromised user accounts. It's a complex trade-off.
I also don't think this has to do much with free software, so it's probably off-topic for this list.