Google made a change in Chrome 69 to log a user out of Chrome when they log out of a Google service (e.g. Drive, Mail etc.) in the webpage. When a user logs of a Google service AND the user has actively enabled chrome Sync, then Chrome Sync is paused, and Sync is resumed when […]
G Suite Admin and Managing Services that aren’t Controlled Individually
UPDATED 8/31/2018: I received confirmation from Google support on an issue I reported related to this setting. When turned off it prevents teachers from viewing, commenting or grading assignments in Classroom via the web and generates a “no access to this service” message. The Classroom mobile app behavior is unafected. Google support also indicated this […]
Thoughts on the YouTube COPPA Complaint
On April 8th, 2018 a coalition of 20 child advocacy, privacy and consumer groups filed a complaint asking the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate the Google-owned video site for alleged violations of children’s online privacy laws. The primary argument in the complaint appears to be that based on the content of YouTube, the service […]
G Suite for Education in Canada
I recently came across a post from Spark, a Radio-Canada program discussing an upcoming project that would be “looking into how Google is marketing itself to schools, affecting how classrooms work, impacting students’ privacy, and how it’s shaping the way children think about technology.” While I work in a U.S. district that uses Microsoft, Google and […]
Google Publishes Best Practice Guide to G Suite Admin Security and Privacy Settings
Recently Google added help article #7587183, Use settings to improve security to the online G Suite Administrator Help. The article describes 53 settings in the Google Admin console you can use to improve the security and privacy for each of the “Core” tools as well as Google+, Chrome OS, Chrome Browser and more. Each item briefly […]
