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posted by janrinok on Wednesday January 25 2017, @02:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the do-no-evil,-maybe dept.

Mississippi's Attorney General is going after Google again, this time for its handling of students' personal data:

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is sparring with Google once more. Last year, Hood and Google wound down a court dispute over Hood's investigation into how Google handles certain kinds of online content, from illegal drug ads to pirated movies. E-mails from the 2014 Sony hack showed that Hood's investigation was spurred on, in part, by lobbyists from the Motion Picture Association of America.

Now Hood has a new bone to pick with the search giant. Yesterday, Hood filed a lawsuit (PDF) against Google in Lowndes County Chancery Court, saying that the company is gathering personal data on students who use Google's G Suite for Education, (previously called Google Apps for Education). In a statement, Hood said that "due to the multitude of unclear statements provided by Google," his investigators don't know exactly what information is being collected.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has criticized Google in the past for its tracking, storage, and data mining of student data.

Previously: Google Scolds MPAA on Cozy Relationship With the Mississippi Attorney General
Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign
Google: First Amendment Doesn't Protect MPAA's Secrets
Google Quietly Takes Gag Off Mississippi AG After Wrecking Ads Probe


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  • (Score: 2) by Justin Case on Wednesday January 25 2017, @09:42AM

    by Justin Case (4239) on Wednesday January 25 2017, @09:42AM (#458440) Journal

    Why are schools forcing students to use Google anything, or anything similar?

    ...but the cloud! is cloudy cloud cloud CLOUD!!!

    Similar issue where an employer is forcing all its customers and employees to plug in to the Continuous Monitoring Systems from both Google and Microsoft. Of course you always have a free choice. You don't have to work there. Or do business there. You could go somewhere else... where they do exactly the same thing.

    One brave soul complained. The answer: It's in our privacy policy. We can share your data with "trusted partners". How did we determine they were trustworthy? Well they took our money didn't they?

    Just click the EULA. Don't read it, they make the window too tiny to see it anyhow. They don't want you to read it.

    Here, I'll tell you what it says. You're fucked. Now, just click OK and you can go on living "your" life.

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