According to the FAQ, &quot;It’s also possible that Google does not use student data for any of these purposes—but unfortunately, Google has refused to articulate the reasons&quot; so it seems like the EFF&#x27;s position on Internet-hosted applications is that the specific uses of each kind of data should be described in a privacy policy.<p>I think it&#x27;s a tenable but extreme position, because basically they are objecting to Google reserving the right to develop new features in an empirical&#x2F;data-driven way.<p>I think most people don&#x27;t think of e.g., their privacy w&#x2F;r&#x2F;t tax data being compromised when their tax prep software company mines it to make data entry simpler, or to make it easier to understand the consequences of various filing choices by visualization, etc. Similarly, I don&#x27;t think Google is invading my privacy when it takes my search queries and uses not only to produce SERPs for me but also to notice that when people type cyombinator it is likely a typo for ycombinator.