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Chromebooks train schoolkids to be loyal customers, internal Google document suggests

Internal documents revealed as part of a child safety lawsuit hint at Google’s plan to “onboard kids” into its ecosystem by investing in schools. In this November 2020 presentation, Google writes that getting kids into its ecosystem “leads to brand trust and loyalty over their lifetime,” as reported earlier by NBC News.

The heavily-redacted documents, which surfaced earlier this week, are linked to a massive lawsuit filed by several school districts, families, and state attorneys general, accusing Google, Meta, ByteDance, and Snap of creating “addictive and dangerous” products that have harmed young users’ mental health. (Snap settled earl …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/news/867138/google-chromebook-education-expansion-court-filings

Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/news/867138/google-chromebook-education-expansion-court-filings

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