Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Do you know that feeling when you are told your questions about student privacy are unfounded by a representative of a company that earns 86% of its total revenue from advertising? “I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link].

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data. Google Reader. And “free” doesn’t last.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Andy Rubin, Android Creator , Steps Away From Firm Amid Misconduct Report.” ” The Information reported that Rubin was “involved in an inappropriate relationship with a female subordinate while he was at Google.” Gee, that last name seems familiar. ” Think tanks.

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