More than 4 million Australian school students were at risk of unprecedented tracking and surveillance during remote learning as corporations exploited their access to children.It found 89 per cent of EdTech products used globally could put children's privacy at riskThe findings come from the most comprehensive global study into the murky world of student data during COVID-19 lockdowns, and the privacy risks for both students and their families as education shifted from schools to homes.
Parents and schools had little choice but to adopt these products to ensure their children kept up with classmates. Opting out could mean repeating a year. Many Australian schools were still using the Adobe Connect app for videoconferencing and screen sharing. ABC News engaged Mr Cooper for expert technical analysis and independent review of the HRW findings. Reset Australia is part of a global, apolitical advocacy group pushing policy solutions to data privacy issues as well as countering digital threats to democracy.
But HRW has accused the company of breaching its privacy policy, which reassured parents with promises that it would not collect or use children's personal data for non-educational purposes.The investigation found code in the app making it possible to track children's precise locations and times they were at those locations, as well as embedding seven SDKs which gave other giant corporations like Google, Twitter and Facebook the same access.
conorduffynews stewyrep That was excellent.
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conorduffynews stewyrep Just school kids or all students ? post_fact
conorduffynews stewyrep They want your biometric data too. Now I wonder how they can get that kind of tech into everyone 🤔
conorduffynews stewyrep Confirmation bias?