Comment on Denmark orders schools to stop sending student data to Google
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Practical consequence to comply: throw away all them Chromebooks. Because one thing a Chromebook will not do is not send personal data to Google.
Or better: convert them into Linux machines. But I doubt whoever went with Chromebooks in the first place has the resources or the knowledge to do this: why would they have chosen to buy Chromebooks otherwise?
modcolocko@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
chromebook’s are incredibly easy to manage from an I.T. perspective, and they are cheap to replace and repair. that’s why they are popular
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Indeed. And all that goodness is on purpose, as the device is Google’s trojan horse into your private data.
All Google products are designed to be as attractive and popular as possible so people are drawn to them like flies on a turd and give Google their data. That’s why Google axes so many projects that aren’t quite attractive and popular enough.
LWD@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I know the word is overused now, but this is basically endhittification step one.
And considering it’s Google, I’m not sure there need to be any other steps. They are luring people in as young as they can, establishing patterns with them (using Google services and Google software as soon as possible) and basically guaranteeing customers / surveillance targets for life