Human Rights Watch finds 89% of 164 remote learning apps and sites used during the pandemic in 49 countries shared student data with marketers and data brokers
Washington Post Drew Harwell
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Discussion
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@aaron_renn
Aaron M. Renn
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Unsurprisingly, remote learning tools are just another form of spyware for adtech companies. Any school districts who mandated these tools on kids should be held liable https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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@jangles
Neville Hobson
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This behaviour seems endemic with tech companies that access our data https://twitter.com/...
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@catbailey
@catbailey
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And let me tell you, my kids' schools got PISSY when I said I needed to know what was on my network and wouldn't allow certain things. 'Course, I also had to keep fixing things until I said I'd start charging them for tech support. https://twitter.com/...
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@themarkup
@themarkup
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“To understand how websites handle children's data, @hrw used Blacklight, a real-time website privacy inspector.” Findings like these are exactly why we built this tool. We're glad it could contribute. https://twitter.com/...
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@mindingprivacy
Jolynn Dellinger
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Exploitation of kids and students via collection, use and sale of their data should be banned by Congress. COPPA isn't enough. Education should not be a marketing opportunity. https://twitter.com/...
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@astroehlein
Andrew Stroehlein
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In the rush to connect kids to virtual classrooms during the Covid-19 pandemic, many governments failed to check that their education technology recommendations were safe. The result: Children are being surveilled. New report from Human Rights Watch: https://www.hrw.org/... https…
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@walterkirn
Walter Kirn
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1/2 It should be noted that the WaPo does the exact same thing to you, whatever your age may be. In the next tweet is a list of the trackers and brokers you are exposed to when you visit Remote learning apps tracked kids for ads - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.co…
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@wadhwa
Vivek Wadhwa
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This is why tight regulations are urgently needed. It is criminal how our data is being exploited. https://twitter.com/...
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@anumayhem
@anumayhem
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“The conversation the industry wants us to have is: What's the harm?” ."The right conversation, the ethical conversation is: What's the need? Why does a fourth-grader need to be tracked by a third-party vendor to learn math?" https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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@hrw
@hrw
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Today, @hrw is releasing a report that finds an overwhelming majority of online learning products endorsed by 49 of the world's most populous countries during Covid-19 school closure were risky for children to use. https://www.hrw.org/...
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@samermuscati
Samer Muscati
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Children shouldn't be compelled to give up their privacy to learn. It's time governments passed modern child data protection laws that regulate the collection, processing & use of children's data. #StudentsNotProducts https://twitter.com/...
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@thenewoil1
@thenewoil1
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146 Authorized Products May Have Surveilled Children and Harvested Personal Data https://www.hrw.org/...
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@hrw
@hrw
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Many of these products monitored children, & harvested personal data — for example, who & where they are, or what they do in class, or who their family & friends are, or what kind of device their families could afford for them to use. #StudentsNotProducts https://www.hrw.org/...
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@hrw
@hrw
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“Children,” lead researcher Hye Jung Han wrote, were “just as likely to be surveilled in their virtual classrooms as adults shopping in the world's largest virtual malls.” - #NowReading @techchildrights for @hrw https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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@aaschapiro
Avi Asher-Schapiro
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A blockbuster new report by Human Rights Watch found that learning tools for children—often endorsed or recommended by governments around the world—are injecting kids into a surveillance advertising & tracking ecosystem with no meaningful way to opt out. https://www.hrw.org/...