A lawsuit was filed April 7, 2025, accusing Google of harvesting personal data on students across the country. The lawsuit, titled Joel Schwarz et al. v. Google, alleges that the company has been collecting data and using it to build profiles for each student that can be used in the future for marketing purposes and more — all without their knowledge or parental consent.
Students in many public school systems are required to use Chromebooks to complete their classwork, along with a handful of Google-based tools like Google Docs, Classroom, etc. Any browser activity through Chrome is also easily monitored by the tech mogul. All of these sources provide avenues to funnel data into unique profiles for each individual.
