Yes, in many jurisdictions of public schools you as a student can attend the board meeting and voice your concerns.
This is a horrible take. You’re literally saying to just accept it because of their pinky promise of a privacy policy and because it is more convenient.
Once we lose a freedom, we will not get it back for a long time.
No, we need to say “NO!”.
Well, yes. If it is school or work related. You ignored everything else I said like they have different privacy agreements, and it is not a “pinky promise”, they could face huge juridical problems against other institutions.
There is a huge difference between private and corporate/school usage of Microsoft/Google/Apple products. And in the end, whatever you do with what they provide to you is a property of the school/company. So, it literally is between the companies and you have no saying in it.
In your private life, that is another matter.
As a general principle, it is foolish to rely on policy for protection. Noncompliant entities who ostensibly would face “huge juridicial problems” if they leak sensitive data may factor those consequences in as the cost of doing business, assume they won’t get caught, or be honestly negligent in their data handling practices. Other possibilities are entities who hold sensitive data could get hacked, or be coerced by other actors to hand over that data.
There is a huge problem with this system that harms and disempowers, in this context, students in schools. In this context, students and their guardians for the most part either have no idea their data is being collected so intrusively (let alone the ramifications of this) or feel powerless to do anything about it, but engage with the Microsoft/Google/Apple system involuntarily. Students engage with the Microsoft/Google/Apple system, but the agreement you speak of is between the school and Microsoft/Google/Apple. The school likely asks for “consent” from students’ guardians, but in practice if a guardian refuses then they cause the students they care for to get excluded.
Whatever data students provide to Microsoft/Google/Apple through the school’s system becomes a property of Microsoft/Google/Apple, and the students have no ownership nor say in what happens to their own data. When combined with the fact that compartmentalization between personal use and school use is at best a harm reduction technique that is ineffective even for the students who try (please read my previous post about the ineffectiveness of compartmentalization), you have Microsoft/Google/Apple collecting sensitive data about all students, mostly involuntarily, who engage with their system.
This is what I believe I, OP and @anon94117004 are concerned about.