00:00A family in Utah has filed a class-action lawsuit against Google,
00:04saying the tech giant didn't prevent kids using school-issued Chromebooks from accessing adult content.
00:12The suit claims an 11-year-old accessed pornography on school-issued Chromebooks.
00:18The family alleges their child received a Chromebook for remote learning,
00:22and algorithms led the child to sexual content.
00:25The school reportedly placed a high-restriction designation on the child's account,
00:30but access to porn was still possible.
00:33Google has not publicly commented on the suit.
00:35The suit also alleges that the law puts the onus on companies like Google
00:40to ensure kids can safely use their products, but does it?
00:44I don't think we necessarily have those answers yet.
00:48I think this is the first type of lawsuit that I actually am aware of
00:57that will essentially hopefully bring us answers to that.
01:04Artzer said Google is certainly capable of doing that, but school districts likely can as well.
01:09They're providing the software on that laptop, and they can program it so that it cannot essentially get to certain websites.
01:21The school districts have, in most cases, pretty good IT departments,
01:27and that should be able to add certain types of filters.
01:34According to the complaint, the school district's third party couldn't prevent access to pornographic content
01:40despite attempts to limit access.
01:42Now, while it certainly seems easier for Google to be the ones to limit access,
01:46there's plenty of reasons why Google might not do that automatically.
01:50It's not just people under 18 using those laptops.
01:54There may be, you know, obviously, colleges, universities, et cetera, people over 18, so there's, you know, maybe using them.
02:05It might have, you know, a legitimate reason to go to visit certain websites,
02:13and whether it's research or cybersecurity or something like that.
02:20Because this lawsuit could answer a big question,
02:22there will likely be a lot of industries and people paying attention.
02:26I think that as a parent, I think parents should actually be kind of following this,
02:31and as well as, you know, obviously tech companies, you know, laptop makers, software providers
02:39that provide those types of filters, as well as even potentially, you know,
02:48obviously the school systems themselves, and, you know, potentially even lawmakers,
02:54you know, should actually be very cognizant of, you know, of this whole situation.
03:03For Straight Arrow News, I'm Lauren Keenan.
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