My kids have been using these Chromebooks. I find it hard to believe that this data has any value for Google, unless they're really want to collect all the wrong answers to the math curriculum for a 6-10 year olds and the essays about favourite names for pet animals.
The location data is also useless. The kids are at school at school time.
They should just have offered laptops that don't exchange data outside the school, because it's frankly worthless to do in the first place.
if your IT guy is especially competent, they could've built a locked down linux distro to flash onto the chromebooks. that's basically all chromeOS is.
Looks like it's not focused on the student's schoolwork/personal data but how they use the devices/services.
From the original BleepingComputer article that The Verge article is based on:
The agency clarified that permissible uses of student data include providing the educational services offered by Google Workspace, enhancing the security and reliability of these services, facilitating communication, and fulfilling legal obligations.
Non-permissible cases are purposes related to maintaining and improving Google Workspace for Education, ChromeOS, and the Chrome browser, including measuring performance or developing new features and services for these platforms.
My kids have been using these Chromebooks. I find it hard to believe that this data has any value for Google, unless they're really want to collect all the wrong answers to the math curriculum for a 6-10 year olds and the essays about favourite names for pet animals. The location data is also useless. The kids are at school at school time.
They should just have offered laptops that don't exchange data outside the school, because it's frankly worthless to do in the first place.
if your IT guy is especially competent, they could've built a locked down linux distro to flash onto the chromebooks. that's basically all chromeOS is.
Looks like it's not focused on the student's schoolwork/personal data but how they use the devices/services.
From the original BleepingComputer article that The Verge article is based on:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/denmark-orders-schools-to-stop-sending-student-data-to-google/