But in their rush to connect children to virtual classrooms, few governments checked whether the EdTech they were rapidly endorsing or procuring for schools were safe for children. As a result, children whose families were able to afford access to the internet and connected devices, or who made hard sacrifices in order to do so, were exposed to the privacy practices of the EdTech products they were told or required to use during Covid-19 school closures.
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We think our kids are safe in school online. But many of them are being surveilled, and parents have often been kept in the dark. In the rush to connect kids to virtual classrooms during the Covid-19 pandemic, many governments failed to check that their education technology (EdTech) recommendations were safe for children to use. Kids are priceless, not products.
Many children are tracked and surveilled even after they leave the virtual classroom. Human Rights Watch identified companies that track children online, outside of school hours, deep into their private lives, and over time.
Behavioral advertising is even more egregious when targeted at children in settings where they cannot realistically refuse it. In the absence of alternatives, children faced a singular choice whether they were aware of it or not: attend school and use an EdTech product that infringes upon their privacy, or forgo the product altogether, be marked as absent, and be forced to drop out of school during the pandemic. Furthermore, as children spent a considerable amount of their childhood online in virtual classrooms during Covid-19 lockdowns, they were maximally exposed to the risks of collection and exploitation of their personal data.
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