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

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

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

On Dec 2, 2015 11:02 AM, "Jerry Vonau" 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

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

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 9:16 AM, James Cameron wrote: > Anish, perhaps remove "educationally focused" as a description of > companies doing this. Why would only educationally focused companies > do it? > > I didn't imply that. What I wanted to say was educationally focused

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

Anish, perhaps remove "educationally focused" as a description of companies doing this. Why would only educationally focused companies do it? See for example; http://theconversation.com/junk-food-advertisers-put-profits-before-childrens-health-and-we-let-them-51250 We tried self-regulation.

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

You can be sure that if google is doing it, a large number of smaller more educationally focused companies are in this as well. It is perhaps not worth EFFs time to go after them individually. This just highlights the risks of living your life on the cloud, and why increasingly, movements like

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

ReCode has a useful summary of today's back+forth accusations down below. But younger students may want to understand first, who invited the advertising industry into the classroom in the 1st place: https://epic.org/privacy/student/ http://www.studentprivacymatters.org

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

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: