Google Chromebook is still spying on grade school students

Two years after it filed a federal complaint against Google alleging that it was “collecting and data mining school children’s personal information, including their coque iphone 7 transparente nike Internet searches,” the EFF has issued a new status report detailing how Google is still working to erase minor apple store coque iphone students’ privacy “often without their parents notice or consent, and coque iphone xs max motif usually without a real choice to opt out.”Educational technology services often collect coque iphone xs choc coque iphone 5c amazon chocolat far more information on coque iphone 6 plus rose pale kids than is necessary and store this information indefinitely” EFF

The latest EFF report, written by Frida Alim, Nate Cardozo, Gennie Gebhart, Karen coque iphone 7 swaroski Gullo and Amul Kalia, noted that “the way the educational system treats the privacy of students is undergoing profound changes,” due to a coque iphone 5s zizi massive rollout of low priced Chromebooks paired with educational services that “are coque iphone en commun often available for a steeply reduced price, and are sometimes even free.”The EFF noted that “some programs upload this student data to the cloud automatically and by default. All of this bon de reduction amazon coque iphone often happens without coque versace iphone xs the awareness or consent of students and their families.”

In stark contrast, Apple has emphasized in its education coque iphone 7 red product site that it “will never track, share, or sell coque iphone 5s good vibes student information for advertising or marketing purposes” and that the “security, privacy, confidentiality and coque iphone 4s pink floyd integrity of student coque iphone se carte information is always protected.” The site also provides a data and coque iphone 5 the seven deadly sins privacy overview for schools and privacy guide for coque iphone 6 frotte la bavette parents.

A Chromebook and Google account for every child

Last year, a report cited former IDC analyst Bob O’Donnell as pointing out that “people buy Chromebooks because they’re looking for the cheapest device.” Now an independent analyst running Technalysis Research, O’Donnell referred fanatic coque iphone to Chromebooks’ rhinoshield coque iphone xs primary attraction as being cheap enough to attract “price sensitive” buyers.

Google emphasizes super low Chromebook prices, not privacy

Many parents of schools rolling out cheap Chromebooks to their children are finding themselves “kept in the dark about what apps coque lumiere iphone xs max their kids were required to use and what data was being collected.”

Parents have reported to the EFF coque iphone 7 soleil that schools have mass enrolled their children into Google email accounts using their full names, coque iphone xs havane posted their photos on coque iphone 6 plus coque iphone xs max verre trempe hirondelle social media sites and enrolled them into other services that collect data without any notification…