Re:What’s stored in a school Google Drive account?
by crazygringo on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @09:33AM
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This suggests their main complaint is about logging into Chrome Sync with the EDU account, where expected behavior would be to store and sync history and passwords. (And if you don't keep separate Chrome profiles, obviously that would include everyone using the computer.)
And then they talk about saving voice recordings and transcriptions from their phone messages... I can only guess they did something like configured WhatsApp to store backups on Drive and forgot they had?
EDU accounts should be treated like work accounts: use them only for EDU- or work-related things. Don't visit your bank's website and save the password to Chrome when logged into syncing to your daughter's school account.
On the other hand, asking students, parents, and faculty to fully understand the Chrome login-and-sync model, and how it differs from website logins, may be asking too much. And it can be hard to tell the difference between Chrome sign-in and Apps sign-in, or to realize that signing out of one won't necessarily sign you out of the other.
And then they talk about saving voice recordings and transcriptions from their phone messages... I can only guess they did something like configured WhatsApp to store backups on Drive and forgot they had?
EDU accounts should be treated like work accounts: use them only for EDU- or work-related things. Don't visit your bank's website and save the password to Chrome when logged into syncing to your daughter's school account.
On the other hand, asking students, parents, and faculty to fully understand the Chrome login-and-sync model, and how it differs from website logins, may be asking too much. And it can be hard to tell the difference between Chrome sign-in and Apps sign-in, or to realize that signing out of one won't necessarily sign you out of the other.