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national education and parenting reporter Conor Duffy and John Stewart

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‘You’re being watched all the time’: Investigation reveals how school students were tracked during lockdowns

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A global study into the murky world of student data during COVID-19 lockdowns finds more than 4 million Australian school students were at risk of unprecedented tracking and surveillance during remote learning.

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Lots of schools made the mistake of signing specific privacy policies without completely understanding what information they were giving the companies access to, as they more than likely did not read the full privacy policy before signing it for their school's access.

Companies like Adobe Connect were being given access to students' cameras, microphones, and HRW codes, which can give them access to personal phone numbers.

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Digital Tracking and Surveillance - Jade 

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Digital Tracking and Surveillance - Jade 

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Digital tracking and surveillance have demonstrated some areas for concern; data and what they are doing with this data.

The worry is being placed onto teachers, children and classrooms as these actions of tracking, surveillance, and collection of data pose serious harms for all young people but the impact on individual children varies depending on socio-economic background, ethnicity, race, gender and more.

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Digital tracking and survellance points - Ben

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Digital tracking and survellance points - Ben

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89% of educating software that we schools used, could potentially put students' privacy at risk.

Don't accept privacy settings before reading and understanding what is meant.

New Zealand is planning to expand their Ed Tech industry, but they are also accused of breaching their own privacy policies.

Adobe connect had access to all students cameras, Microphones, HRW identified codes allowing it to collect the students private phone numbers, and other undisclosed information

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The HRW investigation focused mostly on the NSW and Victoria.

Victorian Education Minister James Merlino is reviewing more in depth the companies that the HRW investigated

"We won't take any chances on the safety of our students and I have asked the Department of Education and training to undertake a review to ensure these tech companies are staying true to their Privacy Policies and not compromising any student data." - JAMES MERLINO

The NSW Education Department is also investigating.

"...companies that are really trying to exploit personal information of kids really need to be pushed back on very firmly," - Professor Santow

(that was that whole section summarised)

Kinda just said they're looking into it further and not just taking the companies word for it

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A lot of education based apps have long privacy policies that may be breached after schools sign up and agree to them. They may lead you to believe that your data isn't taken from signing in etc but often does get used in certain ways, sometimes to target ads to you.

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· Large percentage of education technology used in Australia puts child privacy at risk.

· Adobe Connect among technology used that exploits students’ personal information. Found to have coding that accesses student phone numbers.

· Microsoft makes purchase of Minecraft and launches Minecraft Educational Edition that has been found to breach privacy policies and access student personal data.

· Results of child privacy breaches have caused parents and teachers around Australia to be concerned and outraged.

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When you go to school, you have the right to feel protected and feel safe. And school ensures that you're protected and safe. So the fact that 4 million Australian school students were at risk of unprecedented tracking and surveillance during remote learning is unacceptable. In fact, 89% of EdTech products used globally could put children's privacy at risk. In Australia, it is alleged a number of companies did not meet the promises made in their privacy statements, which makes it hard for consumers to have confidence or trust in the companies that the data isn't being exploited.

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More than 4 million Australian school students were at risk of tracking and surveillance

164 educational apps and websites used in 49 countries were analysed and found that 89% of EdTech products put a risk to children’s privacy.

There were multiple products used in Australia that were found sharing children's data with advertisers.

Despite international privacy obligations, many products would still access students' contacts and locations and would send them to technology companies.

Big companies such as Adobe and Microsoft were accused of breaching their own privacy policies, by tracking children's precise locations and movements.

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Digital tracking and surveillance pose a threat to young children as companies often have access to student cameras, personal numbers and microphones. HRW found that 89% of educational technology puts children's privacy at risk. SDK was also detected which allowed Google to access data in real-time.

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Mr Cooper (important guy in article) says governments should ignore lobbying (input) from EdTech and hold them accountable with NEW laws designed to protect children's data.

"anonymised" numbers given as student identifiers are actually being used to track behaviour and create profiles based on them

Targeted ads etc.

The generation coming through schools now are more aware of tracking and the impacts this'll have on the future. They're less likely to blindly accept how open the internet is, and students are worried about how this will impact their lives once they leave school and the younger kids growing up in this atmosphere. (summary of Liam and Sofia's interview)

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Studies have shown that 89% of software which schools use put the privacy of children at risk. Several software have been found to share data unknowingly collected from children. Some of the software used in schools such as have access to students camera's, microphones and digital data which teachers, parents and students do not know about. This results students not feeling safe. School should be an environment where people can feel safe. This is partly because some of the schools did not read the privacy policy thoroughly.