As usual, campaigns to limit Google's snooping on students through their schools demand an inadequate remedy.

If the school makes an account in a student's name on a company's server, or stores any unencrypted information there about the student's activity, that is already a violation of the student's privacy.

Parents must go beyond asking "Please sir, may my child have some more privacy" and organize to put an end to these snooping activities.

In addition, Google services nearly all require the user to run nonfree software (written in Javascript).