MCPS GoGuardian and home computers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We just discovered that program seems to be sending data from our home computers to MCPS every minute. We never consented to this and MCPS never put out any information about how this program works on home computers which many of us have been using since school buildings closed in March.

Thats why we picked up the Chromebook even though we have laptops, desktops, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do I find out whether it’s tracking our data now (before school starts)?

Start Chrome, click on extensions, see if GoGuardian is installed. If Chrome is synced to an MCPS account, you won’t be able to disable GoGuardian. If you stop syncing, you should be able to disable it.

I did this and saw no GoGuardian extension.

We have logged into ParentVue and StudentVue and have used MCPS Zoom to access classes at this point. So apparently it's possible to do these things without ending up with GoGuardian on your machine.

It's a Mac, FWIW.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We just discovered that program seems to be sending data from our home computers to MCPS every minute. We never consented to this and MCPS never put out any information about how this program works on home computers which many of us have been using since school buildings closed in March.

[Anonymous]

GoGuardian ONLY monitors student gmail accounts. That's how teacher accounts are set up. Students mcpsmd accounts are assigned to classes and the teacher has to open up the class during that period and turn GG on. Any student who is not logged in to their Chromebook doesn't show up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GoGuardian ONLY monitors student gmail accounts. That's how teacher accounts are set up. Students mcpsmd accounts are assigned to classes and the teacher has to open up the class during that period and turn GG on. Any student who is not logged in to their Chromebook doesn't show up.

GoGuardian monitors students' browser activity on chromebooks. It's only available for teachers to review when students are using chromebooks at school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GoGuardian ONLY monitors student gmail accounts. That's how teacher accounts are set up. Students mcpsmd accounts are assigned to classes and the teacher has to open up the class during that period and turn GG on. Any student who is not logged in to their Chromebook doesn't show up.

GoGuardian monitors students' browser activity on chromebooks. It's only available for teachers to review when students are using chromebooks at school.

Correct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone contacted MCPS about this massive privacy violation? Is there a tech person who can tell us how to disable?

If you're using a computer that MCPS issued, there's no violation. It's their property.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone contacted MCPS about this massive privacy violation? Is there a tech person who can tell us how to disable?

If you're using a computer that MCPS issued, there's no violation. It's their property.

Also correct.