Coach Zane
Digital Citizen B5
17 April 2014
Prominent Ed-Tech Players' Data-Privacy Policies
Attract Scrutiny
As media is developing more these days, privacy and personal
information is being an issue. This might seem like a trivial problem if you are
a kind of person that manages your personal information pretty well. However,
the information that is being released is actually things that you didn’t even know
about. Your every move, what you do on the internet and even your sexual and
medical problems are being sold to companies you never heard of. Students
should also be aware of online activities. Khan
Academy, which provides open instructional resources to 10 million unique
users per month, came under the sharpest criticism. Ms. Barnes, for example,
said the Mountain View, Calif.-based nonprofit's privacy policy allows for "almost
limitless" sharing of student information with third parties.(Herold)Recently,
another site named Edmodo, a Social learning platform, collects, uses,
and shares the "metadata" generated by students as they use the
platform, which can include server-log data, users' Internet Protocol
addresses, clickstream data, and more. On the other hand, Mr. Fine,
Edmodo's chief privacy officer, claimed that users' metadata is only
combined with their personal information for internal Edmodo use, and that the
company would only share with third parties aggregate metadata that it does not
consider to be personally identifiable.(Herold)
Herold,
Benjamin. "Prominent Ed-Tech Players' Data-Privacy Policies Attract
Scrutiny." Www.edweek.org. Editorial Projects in Education, 16 Apr. 2014.
Web. 17 Apr. 2014.
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