Apple’s iWork platform has been banned from German schools alongside Microsoft Office 365 and Google Docs.
Privacy regulators say that using the cloud-based services “exposes personal information about students and teachers.” They also suggest that the data might be accessed by U.S. authorities.
German schools weren’t actually using iWork apps — but they did rely on Office 365. It is now illegal to use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other Office apps in the classroom.
MacDailyNews Take: The problem seems to be how information – such as content and headlines, for example, is sent to U.S. servers. While adults can consent to this, children cannot, so Germany regulators have banned the software.
We don’t even get to decide where info is stored on our own iPads.
Did the year just get shorter? 356?
No, only your manhood got shorter, Trondud.
People still use iWork?
Pages, Keynote, and Numbers are very good programs but that iCloud crap built in, isn’t helping I hate internet tie-ins in programs that don’t need it, sending (your files) in a separate program is best.
Good, forward thinking interpretation of what is going on. My local school district (Massachusetts US) requires students to use Google Docs. We were never asked if we agree to the inherent privacy requirements that come with that use. Google Docs is free for a reason: they are mining all data and building profiles of everyone they can including children. There is a reason it is free.
You were not foreceful enough in your concluding sentence. You wimped out. “There is a disgustingly bad reason that MS & Google products are free.”
Not even Rainbow Tim uses iWork any more.
“US authorities” means the US Spy State which is a spearhead toward reversing the Enlightenment so, yeah, Germany is correct to begin instituting protections against it.
Germany is so non-digital in many ways. Many paper forms, they still uses fax machines, no public hotspots and very poor mobile internet coverage to mention a few examples.
Well, that’s one method to thwart the US Spy Apparatus, eh? The hero Edward Snowden told us all about its ongoing methods.
I love being a spy for commies
Once again you don’t need every program (devices) with/on a computer with direct internet/cloud hooks (a hackers dreamland). The same applies to your camera, speakers, lights, or doorbell.
Isn’t the focus fouled up? Doctors, Professionals, services of all types are using the cloud. Shouldn’t the hammer be brought down on the misuse of the information rather than stopping the legitimate use of the information. Schools keep much more sensitive data about children in their systems than what can be gathered from Office products. Are they going to be banned from using children data of all kinds to keep up with them, their needs, etc. As usual, the people causing the problem are not being controlled, and the legitimate use of information is being stifled with not enough emphasis on stopping the criminal, unethical use of the data. The teaching institution should be able to have every expectation that the systems they are using are being properly and carefully protected.
Strong laws with severe punishments should be implemented to stop the illegitimate use of private data. Private data should be defined better, and the “theft” of it for any use should be severely prohibited and punished. Not just the people who misuse the data, but also the people entrusted with the safekeeping of the data.
Banning individual products is half assed and doesn’t address the core problem. I think understands this, and is at least trying to solve the core problem.
The hook to the internet/cloud needs to be one or two steps away not direct.
It seems to me that this is a strange decision because these services are very helpful to students during their studies, as well as writing services. For example, the Paperrater service, review which can be found at https://essayservicescanner.com/paperrater-review/, can help students with difficult writing. And it’s very cool and convenient.
I like to work on the google docs because they help me with the grammar correction, which officially does not allow without the grammerly. The https://www.instagram.com/papersowl.com.review/ are now more important in the education because of the online classes and most of the universities are using google server to teach the students in google classroom.