[hanibash]

Google is providing cheap, stable laptops for education and most people commenting here are painting Google as an evil data-hungry corporation. I get that companies should be subject to scrutiny due to their outsized responsibility and impact, but this is just silly.

In 2013 only 60% of children had internet access at home in the U.S.[0]

It might not seem like a big deal for HN readers, but computer access is still a really, really big deal for kids in the U.S.

[0]https://www.childtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/69_fi...

[tchaffee]

It can be both. They are doing a good thing and they are also a data hungry giant who does questionable things. We should ask the right questions and demand a higher standard for the data of children.

[kuschku]

Provide cheap, stable laptops that do not have any bias to any corporation, no integration with Google services, or anything, and this would be true.

But this way? Sorry, but after the past years you can’t honestly believe this is pure altruism.

[orangecat]

Sorry, but after the past years you can’t honestly believe this is pure altruism.

Of course it's not. That doesn't mean all parties can't benefit.

[kuschku]

I’m sorry, but that’s not relevant. A child should never have to enter any such arrangement where they have to give up anything.

Anything shy of pure altruism regarding schools for young children should be considered automatically evil. Making profit with children is always bad.