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Google Accused of Tracking School Kids After Promising Not To (cio.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the hand-in-the-cookie-jar dept.

itwbennett writes: In a complaint (PDF) filed Tuesday with the Federal Trade Commission, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) claims that "despite publicly promising not to, Google mines students' browsing data and other information, and uses it for the company's own purposes." The EFF says Google's practice of recording everything students do while they're logged into their Google accounts, regardless of the device or browser they're using, puts the company in breach of Section 5 of the Federal Communications Act.

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  1. Re:i know i wasn't supposed to read TFA, but... by TheGrimmReaper · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Why in the hell are schools requiring students to use Chromebooks?" Cost. Less technical problems than MacOS/Windows/Linux. Easy to collaborate with others, etc. And yes, I'm the IT guy for a school handing out Chromebooks. Two full time IT employees, 1500 students, 300 staff. Chromebooks just do the job well.

  2. Re:i know i wasn't supposed to read TFA, but... by GuB-42 · · Score: 3, Informative

    No sense of reality?
    Our local elementary school run Linux PCs with LibreOffice. These PCs are actually used for teaching and the transition from Windows went rather smoothly.
    It helps that there is a computer guy available to administrate the machines and offer basic training the the teachers.