[IAEP] [UKids] "Google accused of tracking school kids after it promised not to"

[Adam Holt]

Google goes for the Trump defense, denying everything:

http://googleforeducation.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-facts-about-student-data-privacy-in.html

EFF clarifies Google’s Student Tracking Isn’t Limited to Chrome Sync:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/googles-student-tracking-isnt-limited-chrome-sync
On Dec 2, 2015 1:00 PM, "Adam Holt" <holt at laptop.org> wrote:

> On Dec 2, 2015 11:02 AM, "Jerry Vonau" <jvonau3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > That was one of the fears I had about enabling sugar's webservices[1]. I
> was refusing to implement that functionality in the AU images as each
> territory in AU has a different education department with different rules,
> but was available in the SL testing images that were being produced by
> myself the time. Now I have to ask the question has SugarLabs or other
> deployments such as OneEducation signed the "Student Privacy Pledge"? Even
> as a non-profit I would still consider them a company just protected by a
> corporate shield.
>
> Careful!
>
> When http://studentprivacypledge.org appears to be a shill quickly
> created by an advertising industry/Doubleclick/AOL alum, funded by the
> likes of Axciom (http://youtu.be/F7P2ViCRObs !) whose business models
> inherently compel "astroturf" DC lobbying to avoid student privacy
> practices with teeth.
>
> Very clever name they chose ("Future of Privacy") as if DC lobbyists will
> have the final word on our mental-spiritual futures?  Even if Amazon still
> refuses to sign the Student Privacy Pledge 14 months later, that they and
> Google helped fund, comical if it weren't real peoples lives they were
> playing with?
>
> At least the presumptuous "Future of Privacy" is honest enough to outline
> at https://fpf.org/about/ that they are DC lobbyists for business as
> usual ("self-regulation") rather than informed student/family consent.  Yet
> more unreadable disclaimers, rather than tight clarity, and clean recourse
> with teeth.
>
> With so much DC lobbying money sloshing around (
> https://fpf.org/about/supporters/) they will certainly be a player!
> Driving home Silicon Valley's predominant
> "our-antiprivacy-is-so-much-better-than-the-NSA's" mindset into 2016's
> elections, and far beyond?
>
> Ourselves, we should start with Global Educators, who _genuinely_ care
> about student/community autonomy, the environment, and self-determination
> as a life trajectory.  Beyond DC entrapment and the latest Wall Street
> earnings target --- here instead are folks with Actual Backbones, opening
> avenues of HOPE not fatalism:
>
> http://studentdataprinciples.org
> https://www.unglobalcompact.org/take-action/action/child-rights
> https://www.eff.org/issues/student-privacy
> http://childrenandbusiness.org
>
> > Just my nickel's worth,
> >
> > Jerry
> >
> > 1. https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Web_Services
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Electronic Frontier Foundation says Google collects data from students
> and uses it to target ads and improve its products.
> >>
> >> "The digital rights group said Google’s use of the data, collected
> through its Google for Education program, puts the company in breach of
> Section 5 of the Federal Communications Act and asked the Federal Trade
> Commission to investigate.
> >>
> >> Despite publicly promising not to, Google mines students’ browsing data
> and other information, and uses it for the company’s own purposes,” the EFF
> said..."
> >>
> >> "Last month, Google said more than 50 million students and teachers
> around the globe were using Google Apps for Education, along with 10
> million Chromebooks. The Google-powered laptops are “the best-selling
> device in U.S. K-12 schools,” according to Google.
> >>
> >> But the EFF has some issues with the way Google delivers those
> services. It says the company records everything students do while they’re
> logged into their Google accounts, regardless of the device or browser
> they’re using, including their search history, the search results they
> click on and the videos they watch on YouTube.
> >>
> >> Google aggregates and anonymizes the data collected through its
> education services, the EFF said, but not when the students are using other
> Google services. And it argues that truly anonymizing data is “difficult to
> the point of being impossible,” especially when it’s tied to identifiable
> accounts at the time of collection.
> >>
> >> Google’s practices “fly in the face of commitments made when it signed
> the Student Privacy Pledge,” the EFF said, referring to a document signed
> by 200 companies including Google, Microsoft and Apple..."
> >>
> >>
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/3011076/privacy/google-accused-of-tracking-school-kids-after-it-promised-not-to.html
> >>
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