"Turning Children Into Lifelong Customers"
I saw this interesting but unfortunately not too surprising post from NBC News titled " Google's work in schools aims to create a 'pipeline of future users,' internal documents say " The post focuses on some of Google's internal documents that were filed as part of a major lawsuit in which families, school districts and state attorneys general are suing several technology giants, Meta, ByteDance, Snap and Google, claiming that the corporations purposely marketed addictive and damaging social media to children. The case appears to focus on Google's YouTube platform, but reference is also made to Google Chromebook dominance in the classroom and with over 170 million students and educators worldwide relying on their suite of tools through Google Workspace for Education. What I found interesting, but as I said earlier, not surprising, is that article clearly highlights " how Google viewed its work with schools as a way of turning children into lifelong ...
