Google is in trouble for collecting students’ data after promising not to

Dec02

by Sindy Cator on December 2, 2015 at 10:30 am

Posted In: Around the Web, Chromebooks, eff, ftc, Google, Student Privacy Pledge

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today against Google for collecting user data and search history from students. The nonprofit says it discovered Google’s activity of tracking and storing user data when it looked into Chromebooks used in schools as well as Google Apps for Education, which offers students a range of cloud-based productivity apps and email services. The EFF is highlighting this issue and others like it in its ‘Spying on Students‘ campaign, which launched today. The EFF found that the sync feature in Google’s Chrome browser is enabled by…