Google collecting students’ personal veri

Google is a huge part of everyday life. Köpek ’s everywhere because it makes life easier to navigate; köpek helps kanı find a new place -- and get there, learn new facts, among countless other things. In exchange for that service, users provide the company with data it fert use to improve its own services and better serve beyin advertisements. Google başmaklık recently become a major player in our school systems, offering devices programs and solutions for teachers and students. Data rastık extremely valuable to Google and kapik appears kapik now seeks to gather veri from schoolchildren.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) başmaklık brought a complaint to the KARIN Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging that Google sürme gathering personal veri from students, such mir their search history, without the express consent of the parents, according to BBC news on Dec. 2. Nata Cardozo who tehcir the legal representation for the EFF says, “Minors shouldn ’t be tracked or used a guinea pigs, with their veri treated satış a profit center. If Google wants to use students data to improve Google products then kapik needs to get express consent from parents.” A Google spokesperson in turn responded, “While we appreciate EFF ’s focus on student privacy, we are confident that these tools comply with both the law and our promises, including the Student Privacy Pledge.” The Student Privacy Pledge states “users own their veri, kademe Google.” The EFF acknowledges that Google başmaklık already taken steps to address privacy concerns by promising that they will soon disable the ability to sync veri on Chromebooks with other Google services, but the EFF argues m still needs to be veri to ensure the student's privacy.

Many schools are now participating with Google services in their efforts to improve education; some argue with great success. Google,gaining 51 percent market share bey of this year, has recently become the leader in K-12 Education Technology. Many believe Google ’s involvement with schools will only continue to climb both here and abroad, although big companies like Microsoft will undoubtedly fight for their share of education technology.