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K-12 schools latest battleground in fight over Google's student data collection

By Maria Dinzeo ( October 20, 2025, 21:49 GMT | Comment) -- For millions of students in the US, the school day begins and ends inside Google's digital education ecosystem. Parents in proposed privacy class action litigation say the company’s reach has gone too far and that Google collects and repurposes student data beyond what’s needed for schoolwork, a question a federal judge will take up this week as Google seeks to have the case dismissed.In classrooms across the country, Google’s suite of cloud-based education tools are as much of a fixture as whiteboards and textbooks. Nearly 70 percent of schools, and millions of K-12 students use them, along with the free, Google-provided Chromebooks that run its operating system and provide access to Google's Workspace for Education....

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