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- Ultimately it is a better user experience with additional functionality
- Google has better spam and virus protection
- It is protected by legal contract (see here for details)http https://www.connect.ucsb.edu/privacy-security_and_privacy/uc-google-contract
- No scanning of your data for ad generation and no ads are displayed
- FERPA compliant
- A large number of ECI accounts previously forwarded mail to external providers and do so generally without protection of a legal contract
- Additional collaboration functionality and security (MFA is available)
- Again, it has become the standard collaboration tool used across campus
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