The low cost of Chromebooks coupled with the free use of Google Apps and their in-built capacity for collaborative work threatens to revolutionize computing in schools. SafeGov is warning that it may come at the unacceptable cost of the privacy of a vulnerable section of society: schoolchildren. In January 2012 a report from the Norwegian Data Protection Inspectorate ruled that the EU-US safe harbor agreement does not adequately guarantee protection against the US PATRIOT Act; and that without further specific guarantees, the use of cloud services such as Google does not comply with Norways Personal Data Act.”]