Can my french public university require me to have a Google account

Expert4870: > Hi welcome to the forum. Please consider adding indents or line breaks to make your post easier to read. Thanks for your response, I’ll keep that advice in mind! Expert4870: > I am not a lawyer, but what law would they be breaking by requiring you to use a Google account? I do not know precisely, that’s why I’m writing here to ask for help on what to do, but knowing I live in Europe and that we have GDPR, I imagine there would be something about keeping data about university stuff inside the university servers, as they have plenty of tools and could integrate more, for example wordpress to make websites. Expert4870: > Perhaps figure out a way to get a google account. I was able to make one with Incogniton Browser and it only asked to receive an SMS instead of send one, presumably because of a low risk score for the browser. You can either give your real phone number or buy one on SMSPool.net. I can imagine there are relatively private ways of making accounts sure, but the fact is I wasn’t able to do so using what the university provided, and that’s the most concerning part for me. dogeyes: > But you’d likely need to file a complaint (e.g. with your local data protection authority), and that can take time. Thanks for your response. I imagine I could write an e-mail to the university administration for sure, but my fear is that they straight up ignore me because they see no wrongdoing. I guess I lose nothing by trying, I’ll do that ASAP. I would also like to add that I dove deeper into that course’s official description, and what we did does not reflect what is said by the curriculum, so I guess the professors did something on their own, and by doing so overlooked their “privacy duty” if I can call it that.