May 25, 2022, 3:29 PM
(from the Washington Post) Millions of children had their online behaviors and personal information tracked by the apps and websites they used for school during the pandemic, according to an international investigation that raises concerns about the impact remote learning had on children’s privacy online. The apps studied were recommended by schools and districts. Nearly 90% of the educational tools were designed to send the information they collected to ad-technology companies, including Google and Facebook, which could use it to estimate students’ interests and predict what they might want to buy. Some apps hinted at the monitoring in technical terms in their privacy policies, the researchers said, while many others made no mention at all.
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