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Convenient security holes are harder when the spyware is built into the OS. The popularity of Chromebooks means most students don't have the option you're describing. You can't disable the analytics without disabling school control over the whole OS and then you lose the school wifi password and your machine is useless anyway. What's worse is in a particular district I used to work for, this was the only device the kids had, hence why the school needed to hand them out in the first place. So suddenly the school and Google see all the personal browsing data of every student. Obviously there's no malicious intent so nothing bad has come of it yet presumably, but it is unsettling.



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