What They Say
Education administrators in Denmark, have banned the use of Chromebooks and Google Workspace after a data-risk assessment of schools in Helsingør. The exercise revealed that data was being transferred from Europe to the US in contravention of EU GDPR regulations.
Laptop magazine reported that the main cause for this situation is the now defunct EU-US Privacy Shield that controlled how data was shared between the US and the EU. With no regulation currently in place, this leaves EU users vulnerable to the less-stringent data regulations of the United States, which are less concerned with anonymizing personal data.
What We Think
Life continues to get more complicated. Schools and other education establishments like that Chromebooks are relatively light in their requirements for hardware and make good use of the Cloud, but it’s the use of the Cloud that is the problem here. (BR)
