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Not a popular opinion here I know, but I'll say it anyway. Not a single word in that blog post about privacy. Chrome OS is already widely used in US schools (a

Not a popular opinion here I know, but I'll say it anyway. Not a single word in that blog post about privacy. Chrome OS is already widely used in US schools (and tracks student online activities), now we have a 'business-friendly' version of Chrome OS. What kind of analytics does a cloud OS like this record? What does Google do with that data? Even if that data is 'anonymised' (a pretty meaningless term nowadays), in aggregated form that gives Google staggering quantities of data that they can mine for the future. Why did Google not even mention the word privacy once in that blog?

catdog 9y ago
Simple, there is no privacy in the cloud and nobody seems to care.
- jessaustin 9y ago
  If the companies that serve the cloud provided all the privacy they possibly could, would we then actually have privacy? That is, would NSA not be able to refer random communication to the parallel construction department for prosecution? The chain of privacy will only ever be as strong as its weakest link.
klondike_ 9y ago
There are very strict laws about using children's data, so I'd assume that the data collecting is kept to a minimum for Chromebooks in schools
- djsumdog 9y ago
  Are there? What specific laws? Even with such laws, I'm sure Google's legal team has picked through them to harvest the most amount of data possible from those students. Just today I was thinking about high traffic areas in Waze and Google Maps. Sure they're going to use traffic cameras and municipal reporting services if they exist, but you have to wonder to what extent they're using location data from all those phones not currently running a navigation app.
  - klondike_ 9y ago
    In the US, the main one is COPPA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Protection_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pr...
ucaetano 9y ago
> Not a single word in that blog post about privacy. Probably because there's nothing new to be said: https://edu.google.com/trust/ https://edu.google.com/trust/ And there was a good article from the NYT this year about the controversies: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/technology/google-education-chromebooks-schools.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/technology/google-educati...

catdog 9y ago

Simple, there is no privacy in the cloud and nobody seems to care.

jessaustin 9y ago
If the companies that serve the cloud provided all the privacy they possibly could, would we then actually have privacy? That is, would NSA not be able to refer random communication to the parallel construction department for prosecution? The chain of privacy will only ever be as strong as its weakest link.

klondike_ 9y ago

There are very strict laws about using children's data, so I'd assume that the data collecting is kept to a minimum for Chromebooks in schools

djsumdog 9y ago
Are there? What specific laws? Even with such laws, I'm sure Google's legal team has picked through them to harvest the most amount of data possible from those students. Just today I was thinking about high traffic areas in Waze and Google Maps. Sure they're going to use traffic cameras and municipal reporting services if they exist, but you have to wonder to what extent they're using location data from all those phones not currently running a navigation app.
- klondike_ 9y ago
  In the US, the main one is COPPA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Protection_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pr...

ucaetano 9y ago

> Not a single word in that blog post about privacy. Probably because there's nothing new to be said: https://edu.google.com/trust/ https://edu.google.com/trust/ And there was a good article from the NYT this year about the controversies: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/technology/google-education-chromebooks-schools.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/technology/google-educati...