How schools around the country are turning dead PCs into speedy Chromebooks

Re:How schools around the country are turning dead PCs into ... by yincrash on Thursday February 18, 2016 @07:48PM (#11130661)

There are a lot of uses that are benign or beneficial, such as indexing emails for easier searching, etc but having to have an explicit permission prompt for every one of those uses would severly hinder UX

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Re:How schools around the country are turning dead PCs into ... by antsar on Friday February 19, 2016 @01:38PM (#11135479)

It doesn't need to be a UX thing, just provide an itemized list of the ways in which the data will be used on a page like the one linked.

They choose not to do this, arguably because they know what sort of reactions that list would evoke.

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