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They are also building profiles on every single one of those students which is not only creepy but downright dangerous.

Imagine if Trump decided he no longer wanted to hire anyone for a public sector job, if they are pro-green politics.

Society will come to regret this and I'll probably still be alive to witness it.

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The privacy policy for education and the article both explicitly say they are not doing this.

Right! That’s why Google has never retroactively changed their privacy policies and decided to datamine anyway...

Oh, wait, they did exactly that with Gmail.

> say they aren't doing this.

Well, problem solved! Neither the government nor Google have ever lied to us. ;-)

Without an example that shows that Google has a habit of lying your comment just wastes people's time. Do your research and make your comment useful.

Oh lighten up. The defendant is already infamous. Whether or not you think Google is "evil" is largely a matter of opinion and definitely not worth anyone's time debating. It's already been done over and over. But it's still my right to distrust any big company or government with my data, along with deciding the odds that current or future leadership will break promises.

Street View wifi data.

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