60% of U.S. School Mobile Apps Disclose Collected Data Without Permission May 5, 2021 10:46 GMT
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Students are often encouraged to use education-focused mobile applications to help with learning, classwork, and other day-to-day activities. Many of these applications gather data from children and share it with third-party partners.
The Me2B Alliance, a non-profit industry organization dedicated to respectful technology, released a research report today to raise awareness about the data sharing practices of education applications used by schools. According to the results of the study, 60% of school apps are sending student data to various third parties, including ad networks like Google and Facebook.
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The majority of Android and iOS apps created for US public and private schools send student data to assorted third parties, researchers have found, calling into question privacy commitments from Apple and Google as app store stewards.
The Me2B Alliance, a non-profit technology policy group, examined a random sample of 73 mobile applications used in 38 different schools across 14 US states and found 60 per cent were transmitting student data.
The apps in question send data using software development kits or SDKs, which consist of modular code libraries that can be used to implement utility functions, analytics, or advertising without the hassle of creating these capabilities from scratch. Examples include: Google’s AdMob, Firebase, and Sign-in SDKs, Square s OK HTTP and Okio SDKs, and Facebook s Bolts SDK, among others.
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