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Google’s use of student data could effectively ban Chromebooks from Denmark schools (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (3 children)

My kids have been using these Chromebooks. I find it hard to believe that this data has any value for Google, unless they're really want to collect all the wrong answers to the math curriculum for a 6-10 year olds and the essays about favourite names for pet animals. The location data is also useless. The kids are at school at school time.

They should just have offered laptops that don't exchange data outside the school, because it's frankly worthless to do in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

Just because you can't perceive or understand the exploitation being conducted doesn't mean you're not being spied on, stolen from, exploited for any and every means possible and your ignorance will feed them further when giving your children as well.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Looks like it's not focused on the student's schoolwork/personal data but how they use the devices/services.

From the original BleepingComputer article that The Verge article is based on:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/denmark-orders-schools-to-stop-sending-student-data-to-google/

The agency clarified that permissible uses of student data include providing the educational services offered by Google Workspace, enhancing the security and reliability of these services, facilitating communication, and fulfilling legal obligations.

Non-permissible cases are purposes related to maintaining and improving Google Workspace for Education, ChromeOS, and the Chrome browser, including measuring performance or developing new features and services for these platforms.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

if your IT guy is especially competent, they could've built a locked down linux distro to flash onto the chromebooks. that's basically all chromeOS is.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Most public schools wouldn't have the budget to allocate a staff member to create and maintain such a distro. It would also take quite some time to flash to all of the devices.

The management tools built into chromeOS are also mature and very compelling to schools. Most schools don't see the value of reinventing the wheel when a mostly ok solution that takes no extra effort is already available.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

that's also a factor, but having some of these tools developed on a national level could be useful.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

Every time such a thing is attempted, the government officials are bribed by Microsoft to stop the project.

Happened in Munich for example.