[steffanA]

Prosecute for what, though? It's very common for school accounts to take over a chromebook until you remove their profile/perform factory reset.

This sounds more like a Google issue for allowing this behavior in the first place.

[nicce]

It is not actually specific behavior to Google (while Android in general has the same property). History has seen many cases, even my old Nokia Lumia phone many years ago has similar properties when I logged in the organisational email and that granted them remote wipe and access rights. Also iPhones have ”organizational control”, which can be set by certain configuration profiles, to track users.

Companies have had demand for these kind features and now they are there.

[lstamour]

Apple said in one of their WWDC keynotes somewhere that because use of personal devices for work was so common, Apple was going to sandbox and limit access to personal data after signing in to a work account - so the most work could do is erase their part of the device and not erase or touch the entire device. The idea being that if you bought the device and it wasn’t provisioned from work, then signing in with a work email should only ever affect your work accounts and apps that access them. But I might have the details wrong, haven’t looked into it in detail yet. The iOS feature is called “Account-Driven User Enrollment”, there’s a WWDC video on it from last year.

[dragonwriter]

> Prosecute for what, though?

Both what and who are good questions, which is why I say: “What you probably want to do is contact a lawyer and see if you have any civil law remedies.”

It's plausible that something in the combination of Google and school district practices violates some law of some applicable jurisdiction, but it's not obvious to me what law would be impacted.