A nine-year-old student in Istanbul and his mother told HRW that his teacher required him to use online learning platforms every day to be marked as attending school during Covid-19 closures. HRW’s opening account of his school day describes tracking technologies on his school’s online learning platform, including location tracking, advertising technology companies receiving information about his use of the virtual whiteboard, and a social media platform accessing his phone’s contact list. The report says neither he nor his mother knew about this.