The suit is about biometrics and children’s privacy in Google’s education apps, which are suddenly, wildly popular now due to COVID-19.
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Google denies illegally slurping data off free student Chromebooks
Nonsense! says Google in response to a lawsuit filed by New Mexico’s AG, which accuses Google of violating COPPA’s child privacy laws.
College students call for ban on facial recognition on campus
Fight for the Future is building on its success in pressuring concert promoters to back off of plans to use the technology at festivals.
What a teen grade hacker’s confession can teach us
“We had access to the grade book. Now we could change the grades.”
How one school district is monitoring social media of students and teachers
They’re trying to keep kids safe, but nobody’s talking about who can access the data or what standards are used to capture it. 
20 students charged in school sexting scandal
Twenty US middle and high-school students in the US are facing charges of privacy invasion after numerous explicit photos of female students were swapped by text and social media. 
Barack Obama calls for stricter data privacy, disclosure laws
President Obama has announced a laundry list of proposals to improve the data privacy of consumers. 
California passes “landmark bill” to protect students’ personal data
There’s a lot at stake: think student records that cover attendance, grades, discipline, health, academics, intimate details about family members, parent and student contact information, biometrics, and sometimes even a child’s geolocation. 
Education data mining puts kids’ privacy at risk
The NSA? Bah! Private-sector education technology companies are making that lot look like rank amateurs when it comes to data-mining. 