Google Is Collecting Information On Public School Students – Here's How
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
As a new parent, the idea of sending my children to public school is a frightening thought. The more you read, the more you realize the importance of extreme vigilance when it comes to what’s happening at whatever place you send your kids to for majority of their day. Quite often, parents are simply left completely in the dark about some very important matters.
One such example relates to Google’s penetration of the U.S. public school system, and how the company employs a loophole in order to collect data on children. Google achieves this by referring to itself as a “school official” under the law. I truly wish I was making this up.
From the Washington Post:
Google is a major player in U.S. education. In fact, in many public schools around the country, it’s technically a “school official.” And that designation means parents may not get a chance to opt out of having information about their children shared with the online advertising giant.
The combined allure of Google’s free suite of productivity tools and cheap laptops that use the company’s Web-based ChromeOS operating system have made Google’s products a popular choice at schools around the country. And the company’s growing dominance is raising concern from some privacy advocates who allege it is using some student data for its own benefit.
Google’s standard agreement for providing its education suite defines the company as a “school official” for the purpose of that student privacy law. In Google’s case, the company is providing software that districts might otherwise have to develop or support themselves, such as email services or tools that help students digitally collaborate on assignments.
But schools are supposed to have “direct control” of how a company or individual uses and maintains education records to deem them a “school official,” according to the department’s regulation. Khaliah Barnes, an associate director at the Electronic Privacy Information Center or EPIC, argues that isn’t happening with many ed tech providers, including Google.
“The schools don’t have access to Google’s servers or a lot of the way that it uses the information because it is proprietary,” she said. In 2012, EPIC brought a lawsuit against the Education Department in an attempt to stop the government from interpreting the law in ways it argued could allow schools to share more data about students with less explicit consent, but the case was later dismissed on standing grounds.
Why am I not surprised in the least.
Today, Google and many other tech companies are increasingly part of students’ daily classroom lives under the “school official” designation. And that leaves parents in the dark about who has access to an increasingly large cache of information about their children and may compromise their privacy down the line, experts say. But as previously reported, Google said it has “always been firmly committed to keeping student information private and secure.”
Private and secure, ok, but they are still collecting this data aren’t they? They are still essentially tracking the activity of little children without their consent or parental consent, are they not?
Even 20 years ago, parents really didn’t expect schools to track more than basic information about their children’s school performance — things like attendance and test scores. But the latest generation of educational tech products are cataloging a nearly limitless amount of data on what students do everyday — from emails and chats, to metadata, such as location history, that educators may not even realize is being collected, Barnes said.
“The companies themselves aren’t transparent, and often times schools even aren’t aware of the extent of data collection,” Barnes said.
“School districts are just generally not providing notice to parents,” said Reidenberg.
You’ve been warned.
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So ... if I were a kindergardener Google would know what porn I surf.
What if David Icke is right, that the secret rulers who really control giant corporations like those in FANG are lizard beings. Icke was right about the UK being run by a protected upper class of pedophile degenerates and murderers. So, why not have corporations actually run by real aliens hiding behind the human equivalents of Judas goats? Maybe that is why Obama is so gung ho to take away Americans' guns. Maybe his secret organ grinder is a real alien, a being from another galaxy. Only time will tell. Then again, it could just be the same old degenerates in the New World Order who run things.
Hey kid, Its the jews. LOL, I examined everything (seriously everything), including the divid icki shit. David icki is just another shill. Lizards... seriously?
Here, watch this video: thegreateststorynevertold.tv/portfolio/part-1-adolf-hitlers-childhood
This, I think, is the fastest most enjoyable way to wake up.
~"As a new parent, the idea of sending my children to public school is a frightening thought. The more you read, the more you realize the importance of extreme vigilance when it comes to what’s happening at whatever place you send your kids to for majority of their day."~
Seriously, if you are to raise a child in this day and age, sending your kid to public schools is about the worst thing you can do. Everyone knows that raising a child requires sacrifice, and the foremost, right after making sure they are eating well, is with whom you entrust their minds. For some reason a government-run, unionized workforce of leftists atheists does not strike me as what would fall under the category of "good choice". Having my child taught at any rate other than his or her own is unfair to my kid. Having my child taught that exceptionalism is a punishab;e offense is also problematic for me.
Look, I get it that these choices are hard, but failing to get your kid into either a pivate school or a home-school environment is failing your kid. Cowboy up.
Compulsory public schools were set up and run by foundation money $$$ like the Rockefellers, NOT "unionized lefty aetheists," who may be among the dumb-asses who now populate it. John Taylor Gatto has documented it very well in his books.
Otherwise, yes, public schools are poison and designed to hold people down.
Conditioning Facilities
We will tax them all to fund it
We spent 200k sending two kids to private school k-12. Clearly this was meant as a deterrent for most families. Can't have too many not swallowing the official party line.
Though I am very pleased with the quality of education my kids received, if I had to do it over again I would have chosen homeschooling. Even the State admitted there was only 10-15 minutes per hour of " education" in a public school classroom, the rest was administration, dealing with problem student disruptions etc. Hell, had I known that, I could have worked full time and still covered all the required material.
Miffed
Google tells the thruth. It keeps the data it collects on you very securely - especially from you.
just another tool of the gov't and NSA
Did you forget that it shares data with the NSA?
It IS the NSA. ISIS the NSA?
Well yes... private school is out of the question for anyone not firmly esconsed in the upper third of the middle class. The preponderance of single parents these days doesn't help the cause of homeschooling either. I'm a single man in my 40s raising two young daughters, and yes I homeschool. But it's not as easy as you think, and if I was working a regular job it would be impossible.
~"We spent 200k sending two kids to private school k-12."~
I spent similar sums back in the 90's and early 2k's, Miffed. And yes, given my druthers I would have home-schooled as well, though I have no complaint with the education my two received. But it also meant that we drove older cars, didn't have all the new fancy gizmos and didn't dine out a lot. The upside was that we sat down for dinner TOGETHER every night. The kids had limited internet time, (monitered), and limited TV time.
There are aliens controlling this planet. But their from another dimension. They are called demons; rebellious spirt creatures who hate human beings.
Spurt creatures, such as "Bill Clinton", are definitely a threat but should not be feared. For, if you get the drop on 'em, they bleed like the rest of us.
Minions of Satan include humans as well as demons. We have nil to blame but ourselves in scattering in dissension rather than being believers of the Almighty and He alone, Creator of all and to be united.
Om a happier note, God can truly see all - intentions let alone actions - and the deeds of the evil will be accounted for.
If I were to take your fairy tales as reality then upon logical examination I would have to side with Satan.
What is Satan's big sin? That he thought of himself equal to Yahweh.
There are no other bad deads caused by Satan.
Yahweh on the other hand has demanded that his followers sacrifice their children and their animals.
Has caused numerous deaths with floods, plaques, famine and pests.
Destroyed a city and killed everyone within it, simply becasue the people there enjoyed themselves too much for his liking.
Yahweh sounds like a complete asshole. Given the choice I will take Satan.
Yahweh will respect your wishes and give you that choice, though it will grieve Him.
Oh boy, here we go with the invisible hairy white guy in the sky again,,,
There's a camera every three frickin' feet now. If there was any evidence of the supernatural world, I think we would have found it.
Ya Basta!
Once again, I'll let George Carlin tell it;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw0fQzQ_Tnc
Go ahead and explain this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE_C1FXRo20
Any validated evidence of the existence of the supernatural world would be the story of the millennium. Everything would stop and people would stand still in wonder. Hasn't happened yet.
This would be the equivalent of contact with extraterrestrials. That hasn't happened yet either.
Until I see it on every headline on every newsplace on the planet, it hasn't happened...
Spoctor Din
Jesus had you pegged. Luke 16:
27 But the rich man said, “Abraham, then please send Lazarus to my father’s home. 28 Let him warn my five brothers, so they won’t come to this horrible place.”
29 Abraham answered, “Your brothers can read what Moses and the prophets[f] wrote. They should pay attention to that.”
30 Then the rich man said, “No, that’s not enough! If only someone from the dead would go to them, they would listen and turn to God.”
31 So Abraham said, “If they won’t pay attention to Moses and the prophets, they won’t listen even to someone who comes back from the dead.”
"There are aliens controlling this planet. But their from another dimension. They are called demons; rebellious spirt creatures who hate human beings"
and they have horrible grammar and spelling skills.
Oh god, I was so close to moving on but now have to leave this... https://youtu.be/I1188GO4p1E
Edit: You have no idea
Man, you are way late to that party.
Wubba lubba dub dub!
Google, Facebook, Apple, Intuit, Oracle, etc.
The name "Peoplesoft" is particularly offensive. Of course they are soft after being beaten and robbed for 100 years.
Lizard beings eh. For some reason, not sure what, that just doesn't pass the smell test.
Look, I've seen zios do monstrously evil shit, with my own eyes. So have you. 9/11 ring any bells? Not a stretch to see them being behind everything evil. But I am yet to see a giant lizard being do anything. When I do, I may re-evaluate. Until then....it's the jews.
OT, but Japan just came out with a gourgeous robot that cooks, cleans and "makes love"! Of course it's a cool 345K at the present time but in a few years, who knows. Potentially affordable for the average guy. I spent a lot more than that on my last ex and she didn't really cook or clean. This "could" be the holy grail for those guys who don't need hours of rambling conversation and can't cook or clean worth a shit. I wonder if they can really cook gourmet type meals or not? If the techies surmount that issue, I'm buying one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eOM4ZHt9ug
I bet they will turn out to be high maintenance...
So in the process of "making love" you make a deposit of some DNA material.
What happens to that?
"cook and clean"
It can wipe the center of the counter down and might be able to microwave you a cup of tea at most.
Yeah, but you haven't seen the western model they've got planned. Word on the street it only shops and makes it's ass bigger.
Google was partially funded at its founding with seed money from the CIA.
So why are we surprised that the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree ?
And their collaboration continues......
http://www.wired.com/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/
Someone needs to remind them that their company motto is "Don't be evil".
They've dropped that motto.
http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2009/04/google_quietly.php
They have always been evil.
Hey!, Google! Leave them kids alone!
p.s. fuck the cameras.
p.p.s. I've now heard at least a couple of stories of friends's friends etc. kids in elementary skool being suspended for pointy gun motions and shit like that. We're getting some gnarly programming dawg!
IF YOU DON'T EAT YOUR GOOGLE, YOU CAN'T HAVE ANY PUDDING !
HOW CAN YOU HAVE ANY PUDDING IF YOU DON'T EAT YOUR GOOGLE !
Mother do you think they'll drop the bomb?
You better make your face up in
Your favorite disguise
With your button down lips and your
Roller blind eyes
With your empty smile
And your hungry heart
Feel the bile rising from your guilty past
With your nerves in tatters
When the cockleshell shatters
And the hammers batter
Down the door
You'd better run
Run Like Hell - The Wall
You can easily make this collected data absolutely useless by a regular obligatory random swap of these kids' devices.
Login - accounts - cloud. It aint device specific, amigo. Terminals are terminals...
Actually Skateboarder, morphing is good. It's not completely effective, but it certainly does complicate surveillance efforts. Put your sim in multiple smart devices. Change your username regularly. Keep the fsckers guessing...
Spoctor Din
Skateboarder,
Using the cloud is a choice. If not the kid, the parent can set it right.
A few Gbyte mobil memory is a cheap and simple solution if the kid has so precious data to save.
Which I doubt.
I wish Linux would finally arrive on the tablet scene. I know that Android is basically LInux with Google crap on top but I want something without anything tied to Google.
Right now (unless I missed something) there is no choice but to use a tablet with an OS from one of the evil 3 (Apple, Microsoft, Google).
There are Android open source versions... but are they really de-Googled???
I feel so much better with LInux on my laptop and not Windows
What kind of asshat sends his or her kids to educational concentration camps? Mine don't go.
Well, what did ya'll expect when .gov adopted the Prussian model of indoctrin...errr, ummm, education?
"We do not want men of letters..." - some old dead progressive white guy.
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Wut, only two? You'll have to do much better than that to force me to work for you for Faaarrreee! ;-)
Get your child out of public school.
Remember when young adult gun safety courses were taught a at night at the middle school? I do...