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This information is from a Google Workspace for Ed. K12 Field Customer Lead and Google engineers
Long story short Google Gemini Free Chat experience has data protections/FERPA compliance as of Sept 1 for 18+ students and staff. 13+ (with parental consent) is COMMING COMING SOON FALL 2024
As of September 2024 Quote: “Good news, these additional data protections for gemini.google.com free of charge service launched on August 30th! Here is a blogpost about it. Like Sam mentioned, this means any use of the gemini chat experience within an education account will 1) not be used to train our models 2) not be reviewed by anyone at Google, and 3) not be shared with any other user or institution. That usage is safe and secure to the education user. Currently, these apply for 18+ users. The terms and conditions are still considered an 'additional service' within the admin console, however have those additional data protections in place
13+: Free Google Gemini Chat experience is available currently as of Sept 2024 but there is NO official statement on FERPA for that category. 13+ for Google Gemini is also only available with parental consent (Google Terms of Service)
13+: Free Google Gemini Chat experience will SOON have an announcement this fall on how it WILL be FERPA compliant with data privacy. Google representatives say WAIT until the announcement for enablement if districts plan to do so
With that said, I will include an explanation between the Free student chat experience, the Paid staff tier one 18+ student and staff experience, and the Paid PREMIUM 18+ staff and student experience
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