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A Danish city built Google into its schools – then banned it

Posted by mycketforvirrad
Tags: google, privacy, denmark.helsingor, law, data, chromebook, workspace, gdpr, education, schools, data protection, watchdogs, datatilsynet, students, activism, children, author.morgan meaker, source.wired, paywall
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/denmark-google-schools-data

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Authors
Morgan Meaker, WIRED, Charlie Metcalfe, Jonathan O'Callaghan, Matt Burgess, William Ralston, Mark Andrews, Kate O'Flaherty
Published
Sep 23 2022
Word count
1651 words

2 comments

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    Pistos
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    At Google... "Let's ask everyone to give us their personal info" "Nobody will agree to that" "Let's get every school to give us every child's personal info" high fives and fist pumping #boilingFrogs

    At Google...

    • "Let's ask everyone to give us their personal info"
    • "Nobody will agree to that"
    • "Let's get every school to give us every child's personal info"
    • high fives and fist pumping

    #boilingFrogs

    3 votes
    1. stu2b50
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      If the educational contracts are anything like the enterprise contracts for G-Suite, they're actually quite careful about customer data in that context. It's all laid out in the contract, and no,...

      If the educational contracts are anything like the enterprise contracts for G-Suite, they're actually quite careful about customer data in that context. It's all laid out in the contract, and no, Google is not going to breach corporate contracts against entities that absolutely will sue and quite clearly win.

      4 votes