Highly Disturbing Monitoring by School of Kid's Account

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is definitely NOT NORMAL. They're pushing out chrome extensions onto your personal computer.

Don't let your kids use a personal Chromebook to log into school and don't let them use a Chrome browser on a personal computer. Force them to use IE or FireFox.

A family member logged into my Chrome browser using their Montgomery College account without asking me one time. The next time he used his personal Chromebook, all my favorites were added to his. I ended up removing Chrome from my PC.

I this right? Is everything fine if our child uses Firefox at home. If so, awesome!

Seems like a bit of a design flaw for Google though, if this GoGuardian encourages all students and their families not to use Chrome, a Google product. Ah well.

On the top right corner of the Chrome browser is a little person (it's next to minimize). That allows the student to log into the browser itself. This is tantamount to logging into a Chrome laptop. With Firefox, you only log into the google services like you would with any regular Gmail account. There shouldn't be any extensions. Obviously your kid should still log out of that account when done. I would probably just make them use IE because I never use that browser.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there any Privacy Attorney (is this even a thing) available in DMV who can give a crash course? Or a AMA here? I want a class action lawsuit.

+ 1,000,000

Anyone? Any recommendation?

I thought DMV is full of lawyer types. Why are we not hearing about this more from all the people in PTA etc.?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there any Privacy Attorney (is this even a thing) available in DMV who can give a crash course? Or a AMA here? I want a class action lawsuit.

+ 1,000,000

Anyone? Any recommendation?

I thought DMV is full of lawyer types. Why are we not hearing about this more from all the people in PTA etc.?

If you call someone at Bethesda Magazine or Washington Post, I wouldn't be surprised if they would be interested in investigating this story.

[Anonymous]

Many things are turned upside down with the advent of technology.

Just like kids need to learn not to reveal personally identifying information when they are online, they need to learn to log out of their school account when they're done working on school projects.

My kids are very clear on the fact that their teachers could potentially see what they are doing when they are logged into their school account, so they are careful about what they do. I didn't mind too much because I thought it was a vivid way to get them to use caution online. But I do see the concern. I am not sure there is a case, though, since the rules are all changing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many things are turned upside down with the advent of technology.

Just like kids need to learn not to reveal personally identifying information when they are online, they need to learn to log out of their school account when they're done working on school projects.

My kids are very clear on the fact that their teachers could potentially see what they are doing when they are logged into their school account, so they are careful about what they do. I didn't mind too much because I thought it was a vivid way to get them to use caution online. But I do see the concern. I am not sure there is a case, though, since the rules are all changing.

How old are your kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was disclosed to you when your kid got an account and you signed an acknowledgment. There is nothing wrong with it. But even if there were, you agreed to it and have waived any objections. Read stuff before you sign it.

Liar. Or post the link.

Liar? What is the matter with you??!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was disclosed to you when your kid got an account and you signed an acknowledgment. There is nothing wrong with it. But even if there were, you agreed to it and have waived any objections. Read stuff before you sign it.

Never signed anything like that.

Our child has been given multiple online accounts - MCPS and other ones for kids to play games (or they call learning). I was not ok with my child's information being given out and they said too bad. I only learned of them when my child showed me and gave me the information. They give our kids chrome books for use at school without our permission too. Its ironic as they send out literature saying parents should limit screen time and most kids spend hours on screens at school.

Kids should limit screen time at home because you are not monitoring them idiot

You are the idiot. My child is on his chrome book several hours a day at school not at home. That is not ok nor is it ok for the school to open multiple accounts in his name without our consent giving al kinds of personal information as well.

[Anonymous]

So some of you grown ass geniuses want to sue MCPS because MCPS is monitoring their own damn accounts? That is some brilliant ass thinking right there. And I bet it is the same crowd who would also sue if they found out that their kid was watching porn on the MCPS account but MCPS was NOT monitoring it and letting the parents know.
INSERT GIANT EYE ROLL!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So some of you grown ass geniuses want to sue MCPS because MCPS is monitoring their own damn accounts? That is some brilliant ass thinking right there. And I bet it is the same crowd who would also sue if they found out that their kid was watching porn on the MCPS account but MCPS was NOT monitoring it and letting the parents know.
INSERT GIANT EYE ROLL!

No, I definitely wouldn't sue if my kid was watching porn. If it's at home, that's on me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So some of you grown ass geniuses want to sue MCPS because MCPS is monitoring their own damn accounts? That is some brilliant ass thinking right there. And I bet it is the same crowd who would also sue if they found out that their kid was watching porn on the MCPS account but MCPS was NOT monitoring it and letting the parents know.
INSERT GIANT EYE ROLL!

No, I definitely wouldn't sue if my kid was watching porn. If it's at home, that's on me.

PP again, but I take huge issue to the fact that our school did not inform us of the tracking/logging process at our home computer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So some of you grown ass geniuses want to sue MCPS because MCPS is monitoring their own damn accounts? That is some brilliant ass thinking right there. And I bet it is the same crowd who would also sue if they found out that their kid was watching porn on the MCPS account but MCPS was NOT monitoring it and letting the parents know.
INSERT GIANT EYE ROLL!

No, I definitely wouldn't sue if my kid was watching porn. If it's at home, that's on me.

PP again, but I take huge issue to the fact that our school did not inform us of the tracking/logging process at our home computer.

IT'S THEIR ACCOUNT - THEIR ACCOUNT-- YOU ARE DOING S**** ON THEIR ACCOUNT. DO YOU NOT THINK YOUR JOB HAS ACCESS TO THEIR EMAIL/SERVER/WEBSITES IF YOU ACCESS THEM FROM HOME? AS A PP STATED, READ THE TERMS AND AGREEMENTS- SMDH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

FWIW you can check to see which extensions are being used by Chrome here: chrome://extensions

If the GoGuardian extension has been installed it should be listed there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So some of you grown ass geniuses want to sue MCPS because MCPS is monitoring their own damn accounts? That is some brilliant ass thinking right there. And I bet it is the same crowd who would also sue if they found out that their kid was watching porn on the MCPS account but MCPS was NOT monitoring it and letting the parents know.
INSERT GIANT EYE ROLL!

No, I definitely wouldn't sue if my kid was watching porn. If it's at home, that's on me.

PP again, but I take huge issue to the fact that our school did not inform us of the tracking/logging process at our home computer.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was disclosed to you when your kid got an account and you signed an acknowledgment. There is nothing wrong with it. But even if there were, you agreed to it and have waived any objections. Read stuff before you sign it.

Never signed anything like that.

Our child has been given multiple online accounts - MCPS and other ones for kids to play games (or they call learning). I was not ok with my child's information being given out and they said too bad. I only learned of them when my child showed me and gave me the information. They give our kids chrome books for use at school without our permission too. Its ironic as they send out literature saying parents should limit screen time and most kids spend hours on screens at school.

Kids should limit screen time at home because you are not monitoring them idiot

You are the idiot. My child is on his chrome book several hours a day at school not at home. That is not ok nor is it ok for the school to open multiple accounts in his name without our consent giving al kinds of personal information as well.

Agreed.

[Anonymous]

The corporate culture of MCPS is that they do whatever the hell they want to do. They do not care about child and parent privacy rights or they would limit this tool to only school use. Monitoring activities on our home computers is a civil rights violation and unethical. MCPS is a government institution and they definitely crossed the line on this one.