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Correct, "can't". Are you suggesting they secretly violate the contract and use the data anyway?

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surely you can take two minutes out of your day and do basic websearches for privacy class actions and settlements

https://www.classaction.org/news/microsoft-collects-massive-...

https://www.k12dive.com/news/week-in-review-april-6-2026/816...

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/12/...

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/journalists-sue-goo...

https://www.courthousenews.com/google-settles-class-action-o...

None of those have anything to do with Google for Education contracts, and I hope you realize that.

I really do not understand how anyone can give Google the benefit of the doubt in 2026. They literally make the law. They only adhere to the law when it makes financial sense.

After PRISM and Room 641A, anything is possible.

Right but stuff like PRISM is the government getting data. In this scenario “the government shouldn’t trust Google with data because it might end up in the hands of the government” doesn’t really make a lot of sense.

they do not. I don't work there anymore and don't have any particular goodwill towards the employer that laid me off last year but I can guarantee that any data related to the education sector is under extremely strict controls.

Remind me in 10 years when the story breaks.

Hey ChatGPT, set a reminder for 2036 to tell me whether Google was found not to secretly violate TOS of School Chromebooks and use the data harvested from them to create value for it's shareholders.

Would anyone be shocked if they did? Tech firms seem to be immune from the law.

Yes

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