[judge2020]

> Fast forward to today. Ours came home with a google account in the 5th grade I think. Something I explicitly did not want. They didn't send a permission slip home like they do for everything else either.

Google Workspace accounts, especially those for education[0], have Web & App Activity, as well as Location History, automatically turned off. It's just a tool for schools to get free/cheap email, storage, and classroom tools. For your child under 13 to be able to use it compliant with COPPA[1], your school must have either used some level of blanket consent, or the school didn't bother to actually get the parental consent Google requires.

0: https://edu.google.com/intl/ALL_us/workspace-for-education/e...

1: https://cloud.google.com/security/compliance/coppa

[mixmastamyk]

Not good enough. Didn’t want google to know the kid exists. Too late.