{"id":327,"date":"2014-04-24T12:49:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T19:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intersticeconsulting.com\/ibtt\/tradeandtaxation\/?p=327"},"modified":"2014-04-24T22:44:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T05:44:31","slug":"google-facing-lawsuit-for-scanning-data-of-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/intersticeconsulting.com\/ibtt\/index.php\/2014\/04\/24\/google-facing-lawsuit-for-scanning-data-of-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Facing Lawsuit for Scanning Data of Students."},"content":{"rendered":"

Google will be facing the courts again soon in California where a class action lawsuit has been brought against the company for data-mining emails. This is certainly not Google\u2019s first encounter with the court system and not even the first time that the company has been accused of violating the privacy of its users. Google has been called to answer for data privacy violations all over the world: the French have warned, fined and are currently suing<\/a> the company, the Spanish, British<\/a>, Dutch, Germans<\/a> and Italians are following a similar path with the company as well. Google\u2019s particular trouble in Europe stems from the EU\u2019s data protection rules overhaul that Google is strongly resisting. In the US, claims have been made against the company for violation of federal wiretapping laws by scanning Gmail emails as well as state privacy laws and with the most recent allegation, violation of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (hereinafter \u201cFERPA\u201d) for scanning of students using Google\u2019s Apps for Education.<\/p>\n

Google\u2019s Apps for Education is part of the growing group of Google Apps. The education Apps do differ from the other Apps as these are aimed specifically at K-12, college and university students, staff and faculty for which there are no Google Adwords targeted ads displayed. The accusation by two students party to the class action is that Google has violated their rights under FERPA by scanning and indexing their Google emails, used as tools for education, to provide certain features that cannot be turned off. FERPA was written and contemplated before cloud computing and Google believes that it will be interpreted by the courts in such a way that they will find success. Check back for updates!<\/p>\n

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Google will be facing the courts again soon in California where a class action lawsuit has been brought against the company for data-mining emails. This is certainly not Google\u2019s first encounter with the court system and not even the first time that the company has been accused of violating the privacy of its users. Google … Continue reading Google Facing Lawsuit for Scanning Data of Students.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/intersticeconsulting.com\/ibtt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/intersticeconsulting.com\/ibtt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/intersticeconsulting.com\/ibtt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/intersticeconsulting.com\/ibtt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/intersticeconsulting.com\/ibtt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/intersticeconsulting.com\/ibtt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"http:\/\/intersticeconsulting.com\/ibtt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/intersticeconsulting.com\/ibtt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/intersticeconsulting.com\/ibtt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/intersticeconsulting.com\/ibtt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}