2020-11-06 19:15 GMT+01:00, Pedro Lucas Porcellis <porcel...@eletrotupi.com>: > On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 12:00:28PM +0100, Óscar wrote: >> Hi. Here a newbie! >> >> This is a inquiry about Chromebooks to the community. >> >> Recently, the public school that my 9-year-old daughter attends has >> imposed on us the acquisition of a certain Chromebook. >> >> I have not found any articles or conversations about it, but I am >> first concerned about the landing of the Google empire in public >> schools with the support of public institutions. In this case, it is >> an uncritical acceptance of the entire Google system, including the >> teachers. They celebrate all the comforts the integrated package >> offers. The use of free software does not even cross their minds. > > That's something pretty normal, actually. Here at South America, is kind > of *default*, the convenience that Google offers have the weight of them > using that data to whatever they want it to. > > There was going a survey here on this list, about what sort of > priorities the FSF should point towards to, in terms of software If I'm > not mistaken. You can see if there was something being discuss on that > matter there. > >> Second, I am concerned about the tracking and acquisition of data and >> metadata about the content that my daughter accesses throughout her >> educational stage. Information that, I suppose, will be recorded on >> some distant server and from which their knowledge, character, >> mistakes, tastes and preferences, etc. can be inferred, thus creating >> a very personal, precise and intimate profile from such an early age. > > That being said, you can organize and discuss that with other parents, > and if you want you can search more about the term *surveillance > capitalism*, which is something you can use to get some theory and > evidence about that.
In fact, I am now gathering information to support this matter to the school board and families. That is why I have turned to libreplanet-discuss... > > It's always good to remember though, that in order to understand why > surveillance capitalism is bad you need to understand what capitalism is > about and how it operates. If you do, you'll not be so much surprised > about the way things are, but it will help you to get the full picture. > You'll also be more prepared to discuss that than the people behind that > Netflix doc. > >> Maybe in the future the guys at Google will "not be evil.". But what >> if they will be? > > They do evil already. > >> My questions to the community are: what do you think about it? Do you >> think there is a compromised exposure of minors in their educational >> stage? What sinister scenarios can you think of based on this data >> collection? Do you know any specific case of abuse of privacy in >> similar contexts? > > Again, you can start by looking up for surveillance capitalism. There > are a LOT of research being done on this subject, at least here on my > country. I don't know much more about how other "central" countries are > dealing with it. Two names who comes up, is Laura Kalbag/Aral Balkan and > Shoshana Zuboff, although I have some issues with the latter. > The truth is that I came to this from the books "El enemigo conoce el sistema", by Marta Peirano, and "The new dark age" by James Bridle. Also, I have seen some talk by Shoshana Zuboff, and I intend to read her book. Than you for your suggestions. Óscar. _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss