Digital Rights Group Alleges Google Invades Student Privacy
Summary:
Google is being accused of invading the privacy of students using Chrome on laptops. In early December, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (the digital rights group) filed with the Federal Trade Commission. While Google thinks they did nothing wrong, everyone believes that the Chromebook computers are rigged. Google has been able to collect students' searches including more than just educational purposes. Google's excuse is that they are gathering information so they can improve its digital services. The argument is that Google has violated a "Student Privacy Pledge." But the contract states that the personal information will not be exploited for "non-educational" purposes. The FTC is investigating and working for Google to destroy any information they have collected and stop using the students' activities for their own purposes.
My Opinion:
My question is can they see what everyone as an individual is doing or just the internet searches in general? Can they look directly at MY searches? Can they say "Reagan Prentiss from Greene County, Mississippi is currently on blogger.com?" For the people who are looking at things they should not be looking at on the internet, yeah, they have a reason to be concerned. As for me, I could careless if they see what I am searching. They would see that I am a college student with a shopping problem. I understand the whole "Student Privacy Pledge" but if Google can't see who you are and get all of your information (name, address, credit card numbers), then them seeing what everyone as a whole searches, what is the issue?
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