StuC
@aral @Purism @gnome today I was told that google G Suite for education has 70m+ customers and that in the USA, two schools in three are using it. I haven't checked this figure, but if it is even close to being true we are placing the data of millions of children into the hands of the largest dealer in data on earth - before we even give them a choice.
A whole generation sold into data serfdom.
We have to get the technology you are talking about into the hands of educators.
How?
jjg
Has anyone written or analyzed this risk? When you put it in these terms it sounds terrifying to someone who knows about these things but I’m curious if there is some media that explains it well that I could share with laymen.
Nikos Roussos
@StuC @aral @Purism There is also a matter of digital exclusion when you give companies like Google a free pass to educational system.
What happens with students that don't accept the Terms of Use required for using G-Suite or Chromebook?
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