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" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 2, 2015 11:02 AM, "Jerry Vonau" <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 > >> > >> -- > >> Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org ! > >> --- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Unleash Kids" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > > > -- > > Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org ! > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Unleash Kids" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >
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