A Review of Privacy and Edtech Tools – Trading the Right to Privacy of Students for Cool Edtec Members : ALT Online Winter Conference 2019

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Thu, Dec 12 2019, 10:00am – 10:45am

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In this technological age of online tools, protecting the rights of staff and students is a global challenge. Different regions and countries have and are developing local solutions to protect the rights of their citizens. In the EU, individuals have a fundamental right to have their personal data protected as laid out in Article 8 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights which states that “data must be processed fairly for specified purposes and on the basis of the consent of the person concerned or some other legitimate basis laid down by law.”

Using an Edtech tool for an educational or administrative purposes within an institution, such as uploading an assignment clearly is processing of the student data but is often covered by the contract with the institution as its part of what they do. However, sometimes these tools have advertising related tracking built into them and share personal data with 3rd parties as part of their business model with little or no option for a student to be able to use the system and not be tracked.

Educationalists sometimes use these tools for interactive or collaborative activities without really understanding that they are forcing their students to hand over personal data and succumb to tracking, to take part in the class.

This first part of this session looks at a sample of these tools – examining what type of tracking is happening, the level of transparency in processing and what level of consent is being asked from students and teachers.

Then the attendees are requested to collaborative increase the analysis using simple web based tools to build a repository or the reports on different ed tech tools

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