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Re:Facebook is in the privacy spotlight but should Google be... by teddyfrozevelt on Thursday April 12, 2018 @12:21PM (#16822428)
G Suite for Education very clearly doesn't track students using it.

https://edu.google.com/k-12-solutions/privacy-security/

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Re:Facebook is in the privacy spotlight but should Google be... by open-source-ux on Thursday April 12, 2018 @03:59PM (#16824399)
Where does it say that it doesn't track students on that page?

The G Suite for Education Privacy Notice [1] clearly states that Google collects device information, unique device identifiers, mobile network information (including phone number of the user). Also logged are IP addresses, location information, and app usage using unique application numbers.

Even if this information is detached from individual accounts and aggregated, it equals a phenomenal amount of data captured by Google on millions of students in the US.

[1] https://gsuite.google.com/terms/education_privacy.html

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