Security cams. License plate readers. Smartphone trackers. Drones. निराधार ka Aadhar. Being watched 24/7 by crooks.. The developing urban students are using technology in the classroom at an unprecedented rate with devices like cheap laptops, mobile tablets running many big / small apps stuff for education and e-learning. Cronies do not even let go stealth projects to spy on students and patients for future-proof extra bucks, think why will they miss lucrative business opportunity in democracy trading?
Anything & everything bechdo for bhakt development, School-issued anytime hackable devices: students and their families are proudly pushed to a corner with fancy gadgets, mobile apps, laptops, augmented by luring TV commercials and celebrity adverts to sign up for branded educational cloud services, the way system treats privacy of students is undergoing profound changes – often without their parents’ notice or consent until it becomes a mutated social norm, and usually without a real choice to opt out of privacy-trading technology without being called anti-national or something similar.
This privacy-implicating information goes beyond personally identifying information like name and date of birth, and can include browsing history, search terms, location data, financial info, contact lists, and behavioral information. Some programs upload such student data to cloud automatically and by default selling that as an AADHAR for cool and easy 1-click app opening student into a world of their own branding epics, not the REAL Internet, Knowledge or Tech Wisdom! It happens without the awareness or consent of students and their families.
The constant surveillance in which education tech results can warp children’s privacy expectations, lead them to self-censor, expose them to dangerous blue whales and limit their creativity. A surveillance environment built by trusted teachers and educators will socialize children to ignore and even accept the routine collection, retention, and sale of their personal information. Ed tech unchecked threatens to normalize the next generation to a digital world in which users hand over data without question in return for free services – a world that is less private not just by default, but by design. Digital Literacy Education for Students and Parents will be crucial to any long-term plan to put students and their families, not ed tech companies, schemes or vendors, back in control of students’ private information.
Encryption is crucial to protect sensitive student information from eavesdropping, and encrypting data in transit is widely recognized as absolutely necessary for even a minimal level of security. However, encryption is most often only mentioned in connection with protecting the billing information of clients. Generally, policies gave little information about encryption protocols or which data a given service encrypts. School managers are under pressure to employ technology to improve bottom-line. Even when negotiating tech vendors, their primary responsibility is not protect the privacy of their students, but stake-holders and pay-masters.
As a steady stream of advancements in encryption have made products and services more secure for consumers and businesses, some members of the law enforcement and intelligence community have grown concerned that these innovations will inhibit their ability to prevent financial terror and prosecute resulting crimes. While these advancements will undoubtedly impact how the government fights crime and private spies, attempts to limit encryption are impractical, create new cyber-security vulnerabilities, and make it more difficult for companies to compete abroad.