Google’s Apps for Education may violate US laws over handling of students’ data
Google faces a lawsuit in California over whether bulk scanning of emails to deliver advertisements breaches state and federal wiretap laws.
In its filings for the lawsuit, the company has also admitted scanning the contents of emails sent and received by American students who attend schools which use the company’s Apps for Education suite. ButAmerica’s Education Week magazine says that that raises new questions about the compatibility between US child-protection laws and “big data”.
Hmmm. And MCPS is buying Chromebooks?
ReplyDeleteYes. At BOE discussion just brought up that there is a BETA App that connects the two, but it is still in development.
DeleteIt is almost a certainty that the appearance of US law violations will deter Google from conducting data mining.
ReplyDeleteThey already did it and it is taking lawsuits to stop them.
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