60% of school apps are sending student data with third parties without consent

Re:60% of school apps are sending student data with third pa... by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @11:39PM (#27045904)

Google, who operate Firebase, enable and encourage Firebase customers to partake in advertising, e.g., by linking their Firebase account to an ads account.

https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/6333536?hl=en

https://firebase.google.com/docs/ads

https://firebase.google.com/products/analytics/partners

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Re:60% of school apps are sending student data with third pa... by asciimike on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @12:50AM (#27046305)

Unless things have changed, the bigger issue is that Firebase Analytics is included by default and can't easily be excluded.

Linking Firebase to Ads requires conscious action on behalf of the developer, while the former only requires using any Firebase product.

Also, Google is in the online ads business, so I don't think it's surprising that they provide docs that show how to use Firebase data to target ads. That said, it's not the default, so it's not as shady as you're making it sound.

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