Classified "A" by ANVUR in the fields 11/D1, 11/D2 Scientific in the field 14.
Google is the most widely used search engine in the world (Statcounter, 2022) and many users consider it an indispensable tool for accessing any content on the Web. Nevertheless, one cannot overlook the fact that the service offered by the Mountain View company is subordinate to the profits it makes from selling user data to third parties-for advertising purposes. During the pandemic, the latter aspect became even more evident and took on particular relevance in the case of minors who, in order to follow distance education, were forced by schools to open their own institutional email in order to use Google's platforms. The objective of this paper is to explore the worrying implications that this massive digital migration to the empire created by Page & Brin entails in terms of privacy and, more generally, of democracy.
