The post 'School installed spyware on a child's Chromebook' has become a hot topic
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The computer 'Chromebook' equipped with Google's OS 'Chrome OS' is gaining popularity as an educational computer because of its low price and simple operability. As a result of a user who purchased this Chromebook for children posted on the news sharing site Hacker News that 'spyware was installed at school', more than 300 comments were received and it has developed into a heated debate.
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According to a sentence by Hacker News user ccleve titled 'Spyware installed in children's schools and can't be removed,' ccleve is for homework and personal use for children attending public junior high schools in Chicago. He bought a Chromebook for him. However, when I signed in to the purchased Chromebook with my child's account, the Chromebook management app ' GoGuardian ' for educational institutions was installed without permission.
Since this GoGuardian monitors and filters Chromebook usage, ccleve, who hated being monitored by educational institutions for private use, tried to remove GoGuardian. However, I could not delete GoGuardian by myself, so when I asked GoGuardian how to delete it, I got the answer 'Please contact the school or cancel the GoGuardian user registration yourself'.
Upon receiving the above answer, ccleve tried to unregister GoGuardian, but with the warning 'This user is managed by cps.edu (Chicago's educational institution)' I didn't reach it. In addition, ccleve reset the Chromebook to factory defaults and tried to set it up again, but GoGuardian could not be removed. 'The only option I have left is to ask the local government to'install various apps, don't monitor'for the computer I bought,' said the institution for personal use. I'm complaining about monitoring my computer.
The above post doesn't say what kind of account ccleve used, but ccleve said, 'Children's schools use'Google Classroom'.' Therefore, it is probable that the school tried to sign in using the Google account assigned to each student.
by Nicolas Roberge
In a post by ccleve, 'When I signed in to my Chromebook with my school account while I was waiting at home due to a pandemic, about half of the apps were disabled. 'I can't control it. Computers aren't that kind of thing,' he said, and he didn't get in touch with him. ' That creates a potential responsibility, so schools won't want to monitor your child's browsing. All you have to do is create a new Google account, 'ccleve said. We have received comments urging you to create a new account.
In addition, there is no point in filtering by account because of the situation like this and 'Signing in with a private account in the school and avoiding filtering'. Filtering is done by network. Opinions on filtering techniques such as 'should' and 'You will be asked to sign in to your Google account when setting up your Chromebook, but your Google account should only manage online services and can control local apps.' I think this is a fundamental flaw in Chrome OS. ”More than 300 comments have been received, including opinions on Chrome OS itself.
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