"Researchers with the advocacy group Human Rights Watch analyzed 164 educational apps and websites used in 49 countries. What the researchers found was alarming: nearly 90 percent of the educational tools were designed to send the information they collected to ad-technology companies, which could use it to estimate students’ interests and predict what they might want to buy. Researchers found that the tools sent information to nearly 200 ad-tech companies, but that few of the programs disclosed to parents how the companies would use it. Some apps hinted at the monitoring in technical terms in their privacy policies, the researchers said, while many others made no mention at all." Washington Post, Remote learning apps shared children’s data at a ‘dizzying scale’. Drew Harwell
May 24, 2022 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/24/remote-school-app-tracking-privacy/
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