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Google accused of harming kids by secretly grabbing data from school-provided tech products (techxplore.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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Google is secretly using its education products, including those used in many Bay Area schools, to identify students individually, track their online activity including sites they visit and links they click, and "steal" their personal data for profit, a lawsuit filed by California parents and others claims.

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Crazy. I thought they provided things for free to schools because they were nice.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To be fair, there are a lot of companies that does similar things for the PR, or because the owner believes in a cause.

[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

Or it's deductible

[–] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

what did they expect when google sold them a bunch of computers for next to nothing with free software?

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago

What does the law matter when the fine is a tiny portion of the profits, a "oops sorry!" more than suffices

[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

What is the percentage of people that leads actually work on? This is essentially a dystopian extreme of getting leads for sales and I’m curious what the percentage of people it actually works on to find out how little it is that society has sold itself out to enable shit like this

[–] Don_alForno@feddit.org 5 points 2 weeks ago

How is it "secret" if it says "google" on the device?