I've worked in the education sector—at least in the US there are well known data protection laws that schools very much do know about and attempt to comply with. It's not quite HIPAA levels of serious, but they do take it seriously, and as another commenter notes Google actually does comply.
I remember a teacher telling us that parents should not check their kids Google classroom accounts because it would be a violation of the other students’ privacy. I understand what they were saying but there’s no way I’m not checking my kid’s Google classroom account. Ridiculous.
lmao! I apologize, I really do. I know Dang says NO to snark but "data protection laws" for students?! Despite lobbying against it, my school uses the King of All Evil software suites GoGuardian.
"GoGuardian Beacon continuously monitors online activity across school-issued devices, search engines, web apps, Gmail, and more to proactively detect concerning behavior." - What data is being protected? It's being collected and analyzed by everyone but the child's parents.. All you have to do is whisper s a f e t y . . . and data protection is tossed out the window.
I just hope you people are being paid to defend these immoral monstrosities. Google, Microsoft, Meta etc comply with nothing. They just pay a miniscule fine when outed a decade later.
lolinder|1 year ago
damontal|1 year ago
hnpolicestate|1 year ago
"GoGuardian Beacon continuously monitors online activity across school-issued devices, search engines, web apps, Gmail, and more to proactively detect concerning behavior." - What data is being protected? It's being collected and analyzed by everyone but the child's parents.. All you have to do is whisper s a f e t y . . . and data protection is tossed out the window.
I just hope you people are being paid to defend these immoral monstrosities. Google, Microsoft, Meta etc comply with nothing. They just pay a miniscule fine when outed a decade later.
scrapcode|1 year ago