Google Under Fire for Data-Mining Student Email Messages

The company acknowledges scanning the emails of Apps for Education users and faces allegations in a federal lawsuit that it built “surreptitious user profiles” for advertising purposes.

via Education Week: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/03/13/26google.h33.html

“This should draw the attention of the U.S. Department of Education, the Federal Trade Commission, and state legislatures,” said Khaliah Barnes, a lawyer with the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, a Washington-based advocacy group. “Student privacy is under attack.”