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I think this applies _to an extent._ Especially with how Google's been blurring the lines between a Google account being signed in and being signed in to Chrome
by jackson1442 5y ago
I think this applies _to an extent._ Especially with how Google's been blurring the lines between a Google account being signed in and being signed in to Chrome, I think that's a somewhat unfair proposition. I signed into my work GSuite account on my personal laptop to do a quick P0 fix and Chrome decided to sign itself into my work account without asking- how helpful!
If I were a student, this means Chrome would slurp my entire (PERSONAL!) browsing history into Google, and by extent- Gaggle.
In fact, my former school district actually used Gaggle. I know this for two reasons- first, the IT manager said "oh and we get Gaggle alerts for things you do on your Google account" as a sidenote when giving the onboarding speech that no one listens to. Also, I got a warning a few times in my email for people saying dumb shit in large shared documents (yes, it flags _your_ account just for being in a docshare with people who write things that trigger the system).
If there was a little notice on documents, emails, and chats that said "${service} monitors your usage on behalf of ${schoolDistrict}" or even just required you to agree to Gaggle's TOS I might have a different opinion, but it seems as though it was perhaps intentionally obscured.
I know I said things like "ugh I have so much homework this weekend, kill me" to my friends in the hallways and in class, with the lockdown killing all those conversations and moving them online I can't imagine my parents getting an email every time I said something like that.
tl;dr these are kids- don't normalize this, please.
I would feel deeply uncomfortable if my employer used something like this to detect "security policy violations," etc. even though I keep my personal life off of my work laptop.