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Thanks John. I did learn something new from the second URL. >five new universities have announced they will move to Gmail and Google >hosted apps for email, calendaring, and instant messaging services. I >did find a more detailed article from earlier this year about Arizona >State's decision, which actually talks about their FERPA concerns: > >http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci1245576,00.html In order to comply with FERPA's privacy regulations Google crawlers don't traverse student e-mail messages and do not display targeted ads to students. But since faculty, staff, and alumni aren't covered by FERPA, the search engine does crawl their e-mail messages and does present them with targeted advertising. This does not alleviate my sensitive data concerns. And I do love how both articles are followed by paid Google ads with links to other online '"news" articles about Google applications. Bob Kriegel systems analyst, Dept. of Animal Science