Google has recently been accused by US privacy campaigner the Electronic Frontier Foundation and has filed a complaint against them with US regulator the Federal Trade Commission. According the the EFF, Google constantly monitors any actions of students using the internet;every site, search, result and video. They supposedly did this without any permission from students or parents, therefore creating quite a stir, especially due to Google publicly promising that they would not do this without permission. However, a spokesperson from Google confidently claimed that their services provide a safe a secure interface for students to use. Due to conflicting statements, the FTC will be called to do a thorough investigation of the case and whether Google is invading people's privacy or not.
- Google provides a suite of tools for schools and higher education that mirror those available to businesses and consumers, allowing them to offload some of the IT infrastructure to a paid-for cloud-based service.
- Google’s Chromebooks have found success in education where they can be bought for significantly lower cost than most other computers.
- Google is understood to be in the process of disabling some of the features the form part of the EFF’s complaint, including Google’s Chrome Sync for Chromebooks that records browsing behaviour.
As Google is an extremely affluent company, a small issue such as this would not greatly affect the company, however, it would lead consumers to question the reliability of Google and possibly may lead them to change to different browsing websites and other providers.
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