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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I had to take the course at age 12 before I got my first gun . A Davidson modlel 65 b. still got it
NY public schools used to have a rifle team, with county and state competitions. My older brother was second best in Nassau County his senior year of HS.
Can you imagine that now with King Kuomo?
Gosh, they own the children now??
They have sold the ground from beneath the feet of the unborn and a share in their earnings for 100 + years now.
Can we say when?
i can tell you from experience that .gov tracks the top 1% of high school and college students for future recruitment into their programs. i discovered this quite by accident when a person who struck up a conversation with me dropped some info he could not have known about me unless he did some background checking. other strange events including a cia recruitment attempt(shipping stuff to central america) in an airport bar(a classic saw it on tv moment), led me to believe .gov had an interest in me from high school. this was in the early 80s.
I wouldn't be surprised. I suspect many governments do the same. You could be an asset or liability to them. I hope the latter...in your case. :)
thats not surprising. the CIA actively recruits like that. That score info is passed around to more than just the govt too. Theres a university around here that will bring middleschoolers in to take the SAT ~7th grade based on their standardized test scores. Presumably they feed for something that I am not smart enough for.
The unibomber, Ted Kaczynski, got into Harvard at 16, later was in special program, some type of brain control
For those interested, here is an excellent article on TK and the connection to Harvard, etc.:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/06/harvard-and-the-maki...
Oh, and a pedantic note: it is unabomber, not "uni"
If anyone hasnt read his manifesto, i recommend it. He predicted everything that is happening today with the c razy left trying to take over, amongst other things. I really like him, except for the blowing people up stuff.
I took that early SAT test as a kid in the late 80s.
It was weird, I expected to be in a room full of kids my own age, but it turned out that most of the "kids" there were high-schoolers, just prepping themselves. There were only 3 or 4 of us who were there for the "early" aspect of it. So it must have been some sort of unofficial program. The cover was a test-prep, for the norms.
(Long story short, nothing ever came of it because my parents insisted on moving around for stupid reasons and each new school system took some time to "discover" my gifts. It was a cycle of discovery and loss.)
It is all about mind/truth control. It is the most powerful weapon government/corporate has. Somebody dropped this good link on ZH a few days ago and it is worth the read. https://arnielerma.wordpress.com/2015/10/14/dr-robert-oppenhiemers-warni...
The 1959 magazine cover is at 2 Minutes to Midnight.
And that same reference is appearing increasingly frequently lately.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-14/how-determine-if-your-fund-risk...
I'm starting a Hello Kitty VPN service.
No doubt, most of these Millenials are Socio-Fascist's, clueless safety zone Nazi's.
"Wait...what's a Nazi?"
ROFLMAO!
Jeebus...you kids...
The idea that other "school officials" and other boards of education are involved is incidental.
This is the meta-modern age of fascism folks - all with a kooky colorful happy front page and a dash of "do no evil."
Google is trolling for two things; super off the charts smart people who they can pick up for a free yoga mat and salad bar for two years to see if they are any good at anything and "trouble-makers" - people that go on the Inner Democratic Party's Enemies List.
The first rule in business is to eliminate the competition.
They don't want to know what you are surfing - they don't care.
Ultimately they want to know if you will challenge them in any way, shape or form - economically or politically. This is not about money anymore.
You are already living in a digital Gaza Ghetto.
They will turn your lights off when they feel like it.
They are effortlessly starting files on your kids - just like the STASI.
So here is the beginnings of thoughtcrime huh? Patterns. Normalization. Out-of-normal behvaior detection...
exactly..and to add, they have been taking our DNA for many decades...The DNA story is long and I wont write a novel...ie: those in control are satanic, fallen angels, and our DNA is more important tho them than google tracking our learnings. For those who study the Bible, we are in deja vu of the old testament. Nothing new under the sun. Whether the story of noahs ark is true or not, it all came down to DNA. Bloodlines. And all the wars we are facing to this day are the same as the old testament. nothing new under the sun....except now they have google. Read the book of Judges where they wanted a king obama or bush or clintons...and mike rivero on WRH says that the christians supported slavery which is a total lie...God could not change things overnight and stop slavery same as Thomas Jefferson could not. Both Gods words, and Jeffersons words were a beginning to make the changes..I dislike atheists more than I dislike christians who do not study but think they know everything....the Bible says to seek wisdom and understanding as if it was your last breath...neither muslims, nor christians, nor atheists do this. atheism is a religion just like the rest...and fuck you all.
"and mike rivero on WRH says that the christians supported slavery which is a total lie..."
Rivero is a total liar, he is a jew.
But he is correct in that christians were involved with the slave trade, as the jews owned the first slave ships and the muslims traded christians into slavery when they invaded europe.
wtf???? can you be more divisive? What and who do you like? Yourself??? "And fuck you all", that comment just took the last wisp of hot wind from your sails.... you are forever stuck in the doldrums.
All cool 'bro. You could slow it down a bit for the ... y'know... retards.
there is no God
Atheism is not a religion.... but you are a stupid shit so believe whatever bullshit you want.
Calling atheism a religion is like calling vacuum a gas.
david icke spoke of this almost two decades ago...glad to see zerohedge is finally catching up after 20 frigging years.......
Of course David is correct about the moon, and saturn , and evil demons who eat children who shapeshift into reptiles. Christians seem to foam at the mouth to talk shit about him cause they have it all figured out....
http://youtu.be/qcQzOZmJykk
But he talked about the canadian jews and they gave him an offer he could not refuse.
"They don't want to know what you are surfing - they don't care"
Talk about total and complete bull fucking shit!
I swear. Do you idiots read off of a script or something?
Kids are sharing pictures of their private parts with other kids - that sorta throws cold water on the whole "privacy" thing...
Funny how a lot of Rhodes scholars end up as member of the
CFR
bankonzhongguo
It is rather myopic and mistaken to claim or impute that the collection of data
by DHS, NSA, google, etc., even just at schools, is a plot of the "Democratic Party".
Will these self-serving Red/Blue accusations and exonerations never end?
As was pointed out some time ago, the major political parties
are two wings of the same bird of prey.
Google has had suspicious origins and close ties to the NSA. It would not surprise me if the NSA actually owned a good part of the action.
Google has singlehandedly destroyed small business in the US and we will pay for that long before they can brainwash your kids or make more money from them....you know it's almost as if they are making and selling child porn......
https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
Assange found a direct link when Eric Schmidt met with him and snuck govt agents along to listen in. Well worth the read.
Don't Be Evil is obviously a sick joke.
Big Brother is named Google. Google, partnered with the corrupted US government, now controls what we buy, what we read and what we see.
“Hate Donald Trump? Want to erase him from the internet? There’s an app for that—or a Google Chrome web browser extension.”
Google Now Censoring Trump from Internet
Filtering out front-runner will do nothing to stop his meteoric rise in the polls
Infowars.com - December 31, 2015
The Trump Filter, developed by Rob Spectre, blocks websites covering the front-runner and, according to the filter’s website, “makes America great again.”
“Eliminate Donald Trump from all your web browsing without leaving the Internet. Donald simply disappears from your view of every web page.”
According to Spectre, blocking news coverage of Donald Trump will “give concerned citizens the opportunity to actually focus on other candidates and learn about the issues.”
http://www.infowars.com/google-and-the-trump-free-internet/
You know, considering that it's an optional browser extension that will only be installed by people who aren't going to vote for trump in the first place I can't see why it's being portrayed as a nefarious plot. Personally I think it's funny as hell.
because they could easily install filters you are unaware of to limit information you seek,,, that's the danger... but I am sure you already knew that.
It's a capability that has existed for a long time. No sense worrying because what we can do equals exactly zero.
Are you seroiously that "stupid"?
Oh sorry ... microaggressions .... "retarded" ?
No, I've just had a lotof practice on not sweating the shit I can't control. They've already won; there's nothing left but to sit back and watch the world burn.
Oh BS "they've already won" and "there's nothing left but to sit back". When 6+ million take up arms against the tyrants, more than 1 million tyrants will perish. Leave 'em on the lampposts as a shining promise of freedom and Truth.
HAHAHA HAHAHA
If six million Americans take up arms in a common cause I will eat my own ass. Even if you get the six million you will only win if the military stands down.
I find it very interesting to always get Wikipedia on the first item of a google search!
I tend to use other search engines instead of Google.
Mostly because I know they are a bunch of evil fucks and I do not want them to be able to profit from me if I can help it.
Until it gets installed without your consent 'for your own good' how would you know what else is sensored without your consent?
This is why we need to index and license all data sellers, who are they??? Would you buy stock from a broker who's not licensed? People that do your hair and nails have to be indexed and licensed as a comparison. It's a $180 billion dollar a year business and bad and flawed data gets the same price as good data.
http://www.youcaring.com/other/help-preserve-our-privacy-/258776
This is what is called Excess Scoring of US Consumers with the government giving them cart blanche...why do you think we have so many breached? Our data whether legit or stolen will end up on sites like the data exchange. Nobody's looking at the algorithms and proprietary code being used are they?
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-data-exchange-buy-and-sell-data-on.html
Nothing digital is secure,,, nothing digital is safe,,, nothing digital is beautiful, which is why nature preferred analog and we all know Man abhors the very nature of nature,,, therefore digital is the tool of his choice.
Digital is for limitless monitoring and controlling the masses. From birth to death our entire life on a chip. Soon digital machines will determine who lives, what value you are to the system, and who dies when that value goes too low. You will report to, work and die for digital machines in wars they deem necessary. I see a mixture of the Matrix, Terminator and War Games in our future.
What a horrifying life that will be for analog life forms.
Very well presented while shooting shots of Absinthe. And its actually all true.
Struth.
Wait until your kids come home one day sporting a pair of Google Glasses and a microchip uplink implant in their brain which they got free with their Google sponsored TB shot and ear nose and throat exam. Then you can really be pissed off.
Who says there aren't micro chips in all that crap narcissistic parents get their kids shot with?
Or in the center of every carrot, potato, and onion picked off the ground. They could just be freaking crawling into your nose as you sleep. Boo!