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You are best off reading the actual Complaint to determine who the parties are and the specific allegations against Google...that said the article included this
by will_brown 10y ago
You are best off reading the actual Complaint to determine who the parties are and the specific allegations against Google...that said the article included this single allegation against Google from the Complaint:
>"Google's lies," according to the lawsuit, included a statement on a privacy page for Apps for Education, which was on the web from at least June 2011 to September 2012, and said the apps were "completely ad-free -- which means your school's content is not processed by Google's advertising systems."
- upofadown 10y agoThat statement from Google would only be a lie if the students were getting ads. The article says the complaint is that "the firm harvested their data for commercial gain without their consent". I could not determine from the article exactly what harvesting was done or what commercial gain derived from that. Google has maintained that the email scanning for targeted advertising is not a privacy issue in that it is automated and there are no details leaked outside the system. If it turned out that the scanning was done and no actions resulted from that then the whole thing would become philosophical.
- gunshigh 10y agoThey lied because they claimed the emails weren't being scanned: "which means your school's content is not processed by Google's advertising systems"