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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

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Implied: students are lazy; students are conniving; students are academically unprepared. There were also cyber attacks against testing systems and several examples of data being leaked due to negligence and “ human error ” – and as a result of all of this, plenty of lawsuits. million children ?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“In the Leeds offering, for example, each course certificate will cost £59 and there are five taught courses; the sixth assessment course, which leads to 10 credits, is priced at £250 – making a total cost of £545 – which will also cover access to online library content,” The Guardian reports. (It’ll