> the owners of the most (third parties accessing student data) were Google
Hardly a shocker. Google has been successfully pushing their classroom.google.com at school boards for several years. Schools of course don't ask many tough questions and (I suspect) when installing/setting up it's next-next-finish. Students (and parents) really don't have a choice if their school advocates using the service.
Glad my kids have long graduated so I haven't the need to fight to keep Google's hands out of (our) children's lives!
I would expect Google Classrooms to be particularly good at not sending data to _third_ parties!
They're already Google, so are not a third party. In this case it's at least clear and obvious that Google is being trusted with student data. And being Google, they already have in-house services for ad tracking, analytics, and what not. You're still sending data to Google, but at it seems less likely it'd then be sent out to other third parties with unclear privacy policies.
This is also why I think concern over "third parties" is misguided. It needlessly advantages the biggest tech companies, and encourages them to get even bigger.
Yep. I’m in a k12 school, and we have google classroom on ipads and every proprietary thing you can think of. All my teachers have this annoying apple teacher image in their email signatures. No choice.
Hardly a shocker. Google has been successfully pushing their classroom.google.com at school boards for several years. Schools of course don't ask many tough questions and (I suspect) when installing/setting up it's next-next-finish. Students (and parents) really don't have a choice if their school advocates using the service.
Glad my kids have long graduated so I haven't the need to fight to keep Google's hands out of (our) children's lives!