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?
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.
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.
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?