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Public institutions now often require agreeing to the Google Account ToS to get public schooling. IMO this should be illegal.
by sneak 3y ago
Public institutions now often require agreeing to the Google Account ToS to get public schooling.
IMO this should be illegal.
- ChainOfFools 3y agoAnd if it's not Google it's Microsoft. Which is, and I can't believe I'm saying this, the lesser of two evils at this point. There's a 2003 me staring through a time travel portal absolutely aghast that 2023 me is saying something like this.
- doctor_eval 3y agoMicrosoft has always been an apex predator, like a lion or maybe a hippo. It can end you in a single bite, but at least you know what you’re dealing with. Google is more like a malaria carrying species of mosquito. Little bites that you barely notice, but in aggregate are actually much more dangerous. I know the metaphor is a bit stretched but even in the late 90’d it was clear what Microsoft did. Google has gone from “don’t be evil” to “this is the definition of open source” to …
- aetherson 3y agoHippos aren't predators.
- doctor_eval 3y agoTrue, but they are widely known as being one of the most dangerous animals in Africa; number 11 on this list [0]. So you (probably) know what you’re dealing with. Of course my point was that the mosquito, whose bite is far less “annoying”, is actually #1. [0] https://www.sciencealert.com/what-are-the-worlds-15-deadliest-animals https://www.sciencealert.com/what-are-the-worlds-15-deadlies...
- sneak 3y agoAll big tech companies that store non-e2ee data are equally evil, because they all by law must make that data available to government spies without a warrant. (They know this, and they still collect the data.) These same government spies run an international network of torture centers.
- scarface_74 3y agoEvery public school and government institution for at least the last two decades has depended on private SaaS companies for everything from recording grades, to managing school lunches, payroll, attendance and almost every other facet of education
- Solvency 3y agoIt does beg the question why the public sector doesn't aim to create a public source software division for all of these administrative needs. Jobs program and all that.
- johndhi 3y agoThat seems silly to me. Private solutions are almost always going to be better, more secure, cheaper.
- Solvency 3y agoFor the explicit purpose of my personal data not being siphoned off, owned, and monetized by 3rd party private companies via proxy interactions with the government (like, you know, public school) that are almost virtually unavoidable for most citizens.
- scarface_74 3y agoYou trust the competence of the government to keep your information private? And I can guarantee you they are going to bring in high priced consultants to do the work because no government or board of education is going to ever pay software developers their market value and have them on their payroll.
- johndhi 3y agoPrivate companies (Salesforce, snowflake, etc) offer "government cloud" services where they are restricted by law (fedramp and others) from using your data for their own purposes. Do you not believe that is actually happening? I've worked on them myself.