70 percent of American schools use Chromebooks including cloud services from Google. When cookies are closed through secret fingerprinting in Chrome browser, it should still be followed by Google on the Internet. The allegation has been made by a new lawsuit that wants to represent all the affected families as an action for one collective. The data group will evaluate sliced ​​data for the commercial purposes of itself and its advertising customers.
The affected children have to go to school from the right and use chrombooks and about two dozen cloud services Google, from e-mail service gmail to chat services and Google Docs to AI Language Model Gemini. Opt-out is not intended. Most of these school children are minors. Legal parents will have to agree to processing your data by Google; Google also does not try to achieve its consent, but rely on the contracts contented with schools. However, they cannot replace the consent of legal parents, sue.
Google not only violates civil law, but also criminal law and constitutional law, which was presented in the US Federal Court of California on Monday. According to the law, the latter becomes a complaint as Google provides chromebooks and several cloud services on behalf of school officials. Process means Joel Schwarz et U V Google And tolerates AZ. 3: 25-CV-03125.
“Due to its proposals, Google monitors students and constantly extracts his personal data,” the introduction of comprehensive complaints says “Google and its customers process this information on the intimate, detailed profiles of school children.” Companies take advantage of these profiles to marketing their products and services for children, “how children think and work, to create their information environment, and to make important decisions affecting children’s lives and future – without knowledge of children or their parents, without the possibility of children or their parents, without the possibility of children or their parents, without the possibility of individual and personal information.”
Fingerprinting is difficult to avoid
Technically, Google browser uses fingerprinting. There are many variants that are difficult. During the sleeping fingerprinting, a script writes in the text browser window, such as or rarely. The same script then reads the related screen material as graphic information. Depending on the operating system version, browser version, graphics card and graphics driver version, the results provided vary minimally. If the same script runs on another visit website, it can most likely recognize the computer – without cookies.
Similar tricks can be used for the use of sound, battery status or software interface (API) for Webrtc. For example, a script secretly calculates a tone sequence, which is not then released. The next time the tracker can identify and assign the result. The lawsuit does not say what are the forms of Google’s fingerprinting.
“This means that Google (fingerprint) can use every child to advance, whether he or the school administrator has neutralized cookies or used technology, which blocks the cookies of third parties (…). The profile created by fingerprinting is recognized by users and websites on websites.” Google “solid data harvest enforces serious and irreversible risks in privacy, property and self -development, and harasses them in a serious, hidden manner”, the plaintiffs complain. They are children from various American states.
Such data collection and use are legally allowed in the exchange of adequate compensation due to voluntary acceptance of only one responsible person. The legal parents who were not asked this are responsible for this. In addition, there will be no compensation for data harvest, nor may be agreed to the compulsory school education applicable. There can also be no question of information. Google scattered relevant information about more than 20 different documents, whose contents are vague, understanding, misleading and partially contradictory.
Legal charge
The lawsuit claims several violations of the law. Since Google is active in the official mandate, the data collection violates the fourth additional article of the American federal constitution, which restrictions arbitrary discoveries, as well as against the fourteenth additional item, from which the right to data security is obtained. In addition, Google hear a federal law list (Federal Wiretap Act) and children’s data protection law violates secret monitoring against COPPA (Children’s Online Protection Protection Act) and CIPA (Internet Protection Act). In addition, the lawsuit leads to entry into private sectors and improper promotion.
In addition, the presentation is based on the authority of the US state of California, where Google maintains its company headquarters. California entitled to data protection of the Constitution, criminal prohibition of entering private sectors, Computer Criminal Law (Computer Computer Data Access and Women Act, CDAFA) and ban on improper competition.
The plaintiffs apply for a jury process, approval as an action for an offense, determination of law violations, prohibitory relief, cost reimbursement, as well as compensation and compensation, all plus interest. Heise Online has given Google an opportunity to comment on the trial and will publish any answer here.
(DS)
