EFF Survey Finds 'Troubling' Trends With Ed Tech Services on Privacy, Data
Student privacy policies of 152 education technology services, particularly on data retention, encryption, de-identification and aggregation, "exhibited concerning trends," said the Electronic Frontier Foundation in a report Thursday. EFF surveyed more than 1,000 K-12 students, parents, teachers, administrators and others,…
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and investigated the 152 distinct apps, software and services reported to be in use in classrooms. It said 118 of the 152 services put privacy policies online. Of the 118, 78 mentioned data retention practices, 51 mentioned de-identification or aggregation of user data and 46 said they used encryption. Some companies mentioned are Evernote, Google and Microsoft. At Google, "digital literacy is very important and we’ve been investing in it for years,” a spokeswoman emailed us. The other companies didn't immediately comment.