The "control of the device" hasn't been handed over to anyone. If you log into another account, or go into guest mode, GoGuardian will not be present. In fact, you couldn't find out if GoGuardian was
installed on another account you aren't logged into, because every account has all user data encrypted. The school won't be able to see anything about non cps.edu accounts - they don't know if they exist, what the email addresses were, etc.
There is no concept of installing or running programs outside of a login on ChromeOS. There is also only one form of device ownership, and that is device enrollment (which is not what is being described by OP), and the set of policies that are applied to enrolled device. Logging into an account cannot apply device policies.
cps.edu is who's enforcing that while you use a cps.edu account, you have to use their software (only while logged into that account or browser). BYOD devices are still yours and you can remove the account with a press of a button.
The verbiage of this article: "Google’s experiment ... has failed" - seems to be written by someone who doesn't know what an experiment is for. It did exactly what it was meant to - provide the data needed to make the right decision. Kudos to those involved for following the data.
This is a big problem with charities and other donation driven organizations. People want to say where their donations go, and will often leave gifts for flashy things that can't be used for general purposes. General donations can fill in any gaps and are therefore some of the highest value donations.
No one donates and says, please restrict this donation to the purchase of basic janitorial supplies. But that doesn't change the fact they still need those supplies.
No one sets up a site begging for funding specifically for janitorial supplies, either. It’s fine to choose not to open that door if retaining the control of general pool is preferred. But it leaves human heartstrings untugged and opportunity for “crowdfund energy” donations uncollected. I hope that tradeoff pays off for them!
Your friends can control their profiles, including seeing how their ads are personalized, changing certain aspects of that personalization, or turning off ad personalization totally, at http://adssettings.google.com
> Am I a freedom fighter if I tell my boss that I'm not going to code that thing they want to get out the door next week, I have a pet project that I really like, and then me and all my other co-workers go on strike when I can't do that?
Yes, if you thought that thing you were going to code was antithetical to freedom. Just because you do or don't do something at work doesn't mean it's exempt from ethical scrutiny by either employees or society at large.
As I stated in my comment, the writers do not appear to believe that their bosses are asking them to do anything unethical, and that would certainly be a different situation justifying a different response. Definitely, writers should use ethics in deciding what to write. Do you think that writing about sports is unethical?
To steelman your argument, you may say that it would be unethical for the writers to not write about something they felt needed to be known, and I think I would agree with that. But that doesn't mean their bosses have to put it up on their site that they have decided to dedicate to sports. And it seems they are not using their freedom to, for example, expose modern day slavery, but rather to discuss music and clothing.
Finally I think these writers can do whatever they want, if they have a vision of what Deadspin is, and it doesn't agree with what management's vision is, they can push for it and quit if they don't get it. But I don't think it's necessary for this to become a moral judgment on the management that appears to just want one of their properties to be a sports site.
For the majority of the history of land lines and analog phones, the phones and lines were owned by the telephone company, and leased by the consumer. This change happened in 1982, 10 years AFTER mobile phones were invented.
It is a bit disingenuous to say that 1982 was ten years after mobile phones were invented. Technically true, but mobile phones as we know them were not really a thing until mid to late nineties.
Not sure this really changes your point, of course. :) It is funny to see the surprise in people when they hear that you used to lease the phone in your house. Especially if you are like me and detest cable companies for wanting me to do the same with their crap.
No real surprises here, but the notable front runners are Waymo, with 352544.2 miles and 63 disengagements (5595.9 disengagements/mile) and GM Cruise with 131675.94 miles and 105 disengagements (1254.1 disengagements/mile).
A distant third is Nissan with 5007 miles and 24 disengagements, for 208.6 disengagements/mile.
All others have less than 5000 miles driven and less than 200 miles/disengagement
Great question, I didn't even notice that. Based on this article (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/uber-signs-d...), it might be that they aren't doing development themselves, and are co-working with Volvo to do their development, but I don't see Volvo on the list either.
> Your entire search history is fingerprinted, associated, shared, and sold.
I've often been curious about this. I've heard this sentiment many times, but I've never heard of where/how anyone could actually buy a search history. Surely there must be some accounts of how the other side of the equation works.
Also, how much does it cost? All the facebook/google help pages I've seen focus on ads, where no personal information is shared.
I was not specific enough with that. I should have said something like, when everything that is collected by different companies and agencies is combined, your entire search history is fingerprinted, associated, shared, and sold. Most are not combining. But some are, and they seem to be getting better at it.
