About 75 companies signed Obama's Student Privacy Pledge, but Google is not one of them. Among those that did are Apple and Microsoft. Companies signing the pledge agree not to sell student
information or to target students based on data about their behavior, per
The Wall Street Journal.They also agree to limit how long they retain student data, to support parents' access to
their children's information, and to offer to correct errors. Although the company did not sign the pledge, Google is among the 120 companies that supports the privacy think tank Future of
Privacy Forum, which created the pledge last year.
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