How many times have Google ...
... been discovered lying their ass off?
Google has fired back at allegations that Chromebooks running its education software spy on children in classrooms and push adverts. "Our goal is to ensure teachers and students everywhere have access to powerful, affordable, and easy-to-use tools for teaching, learning, and working together," said Jonathan Rochelle, director …
"Our goal is to ensure teachers and students everywhere have access to powerful, affordable, and easy-to-use tools for teaching, learning, and working together," said Jonathan Rochelle
And you're doing all this out of sheer altruistic love for humanity and the goodness of your hearts of course.
On the one hand we have EFF talking head Nate Cardozo...
On the other hand we have the word of Google talking head Jonathan Rochelle that they're not harvesting the data which is most definitely being sent to their servers in the likely event that nobody bothers to change the defaults.
<tinfoil hat> Also, he didn't say Google isn't funneling all the data to the NSA. And if they are, he'd be in Gitmo if he said they're not. I wouldn't put it past 'em.
"Our goal is to ensure teachers and students everywhere have access to powerful, affordable, and easy-to-use tools for teaching, learning, and working together,"
"... and grow up largely ignorant to anything other than Google's software, thus forcing enterprise to adopt our systems and pushing our competitors out of the market."
Not the first, won't be the last...