If Google chooses to protect the data according the to EU GDPR then they can resume selling their services to public schools in Denmark.
That will be hard as long Google is an US compagny which has to secretly hand over any data to any US agency that asks for it.
The GDPR concern is not primarily what Google may do with the data, but what NSA and other TLAs may do. You know, the data snooping that is bad when the chineese do it.
The Google education suite gives a non-European goverment the posibility to look up every school work for every child in most of the schools!
It may be a remote posibility it would happen, but just look at what happens with the browser history of US women at the moment!
Just the posibility is bad, as it will cause self censure against commenting controversial subjects. And who knows what ideas the next POTUS may have. Danes and other europeans travels a lot.
You should probably take a look on a map of the area, before posting.
The Denmark Straight is between Greenland and Iceland.
The only Danish Alps I know about is in Nebraska.
This new island is in Oresund between Denmark and the west coast of Sweden. Stockholm is on the east side of Sweden.
This is fine if you're an island thousands of miles from other large population centers. The problem with Europe is that you're never more than a few hours drive from the next country. So even if every carrier in the UK agreed to block stolen phones, I can be in France within 120 minutes of leaving my house and I can sell them there.
This would need to be Europe wide to have any effect here.
Actually there is an world wide database (http://www.gsmworld.com/our-work/programmes-and-initiatives/fraud-and-security/imei_database.htm) with an blacklist. But as long as there are carriers in neighbourging countries, who would rather sell airtime than block their customers, its is not going to be effective.
As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.
