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> for advertising purposes Which neatly leaves out non-advertising purposes. The statement even admits to collecting data for other purposes in the negative -
by pdkl95 11y ago
> for advertising purposes
Which neatly leaves out non-advertising purposes. The statement even admits to collecting data for other purposes in the negative - otherwise the would simply say they "scan ... collect or use" the data at all.
This is just like the word-games the NSA likes to play when they insist they aren't collecting data "under this phone records program".
Both Google (for collecting and aggregating data) and the schools (for giving the data to a 3rd party) should be held liable for anything that happens from this data collection.
- tamana 11y agoWhat is "anything that happens"? Has something happened?
- michaelt 11y agoWell, presumably Google scans the e-mails for search indexing, for virus detection, and for spam filtering; and collect the e-mails for when the user asks to search or retrieve them.
- newjersey 11y agoExactly! I want to support stronger privacy but this just smells like someone wants one big payout for themselves. IF it were found that Google were sharing student information with anyone, including the government, things might be different (well not the government anymore thanks CISA) but I could understand if they were caught selling the information to others or snooping on their users' emails and using that in a court case (looking at you, Microsoft you can't undo that). Articles like these hurts privacy because they cause noise where none is deserved and people just get tired of hearing things like this that they ignore legitimate worries like CISA.
- kuschku 11y ago> IF it were found that Google were sharing student information with anyone, including the government Well, Snowden has shown us exactly that. Google participating voluntarily in PRISM.
- nemothekid 11y ago>The statement even admits to collecting data for other purposes in the negative - otherwise the would simply say they "scan ... collect or use" the data at all. OTOH, this is obvious. If you drop an analytics tag on GAFW or you track data for purpose of bug collection, or you are even keeping server access logs, then you are de facto collecting data.
- blowski 11y agoIn which case they could say "we collect the following data for the following purposes". By leaving a big vague hole into which unspecified data is poured for unspecified purposes, they are bound to arouse suspicion.
- nemothekid 11y agoI don't mean to defend Google, but only to sympathize that it could be very difficult for a well meaning actor to come up with a tightly worded TOS the way you are describing. For example, consider "we collect the following data" - because everything is hosted in GAFE, isn't Google technically collecting your email data? And your calendar data? And your students research papers? The list of "following purposes" could be very long to just even describe the list of features the client is expecting - and may even have to be updated every time a new feature is deployed - imagine you had to go through legal every time you wanted to push a change prod.
- blowski 11y agoTo paraphrase 'extraordinary data collection requires an extraordinary privacy policy'. I would absolutely want every change by Google to jump through lots of hoops. Facebook-style "Move fast and break things" and "Ask for forgiveness instead of permission" is fine when you're allowing people to share photos of their cats, but not when you're managing the education data of nearly every child in the country.