Students using Taleemabad had location and device identifiers shared with third parties
Taleemabad, a privately developed Pakistani learning app apparently designed for children with an estimated 1 million installs, was found by HRW to have the ability to collect children’s precise location (including GPS, last known location and Wi-Fi network name), advertising IDs and IMEI numbers. It embeds Google and Facebook analytics SDKs. HRW listed it among […]
Peruvian students using Aprendo en Casa had data shared with advertising technology systems
Peru’s Aprendo en Casa is listed by HRW among 56 government-built or government-financed educational products found transmitting children’s data to advertising technology companies. HRW’s table shows it has no privacy policy.
South Korean student exposed to large-scale advertising tracking through national educational platform
EBS, South Korea’s national educational broadcaster, whose website the Education Ministry recommended during pandemic school closures and which averaged over 2.1 million users a day by April 20, 2020, was found by HRW to have 24 ad trackers that send children’s activity on its home page and primary-school page to 15 advertising companies, some of […]
Students using Edmodo had contact information and communication data accessible to third parties
HRW’s analysis of the Edmodo Android app, one of the products endorsed by Nigeria’s government for learning during Covid-19 school closures, found it had the ability to collect advertising IDs, contacts and contacts’ photos, phone numbers, call logs, and camera and microphone access. The app is privately developed, apparently designed for children, and had over […]
Children using educational platform had personal information transmitted to major tech companies
MUSE, an app for kindergarten to fifth grade built by SABAQ Learning Systems and recommended by Pakistan’s federal education ministry, was found by HRW to send children’s data to Facebook and Google through six embedded SDKs. HRW said the app sends more data about children to Facebook and Google than it sends to itself, and […]
Students using DELIMa had educational data shared through advertising technology infrastructure
DELIMa is listed by HRW among 56 government-built or government-financed educational products found transmitting children’s data to advertising technology companies. HRW’s table shows it has no privacy policy.
Students using Aprende 2.0 had educational activity incorporated into advertising data systems
@prende 2.0 (the report’s spelling) is listed by HRW among 56 government-built or government-financed educational products found transmitting children’s data to advertising technology companies. HRW’s table shows it has a privacy policy.
Children using Facebook-targeted educational websites had activity monitored across multiple sites
HRW found 30 educational websites sending their users’ data to Facebook through the Facebook Pixel, which collects information about what students and teachers do on the sites and sends it back to Facebook. Twenty-seven of the 30 are designed specifically for children, and all were recommended by governments for online learning. The report says Facebook […]
Students in Nepal using national learning portal had data transmitted beyond educational purposes
Nepal’s national Learning Portal is listed by HRW among 56 government-built or government-financed educational products found transmitting children’s data to advertising technology companies. HRW’s table shows it has no privacy policy.
Students using 100Ballov had educational activity data transmitted through AddThis advertising infrastructure
100Ballov, a website endorsed by Kazakhstan’s Education Ministry and adopted by schools as the ‘educational portal for schoolchildren and students,’ was found to send information about its students to AddThis, a marketing company owned by Oracle, through six cookies that in turn loaded four more trackers from AddThis’s advertising partners (two DoubleClick, two Tapad). The […]