Undesirable Threats To Student Privacy Plaque Remote Education
An online “proctor” who can survey a student’s home and manipulate the mouse on their computer as the student takes an exam. A remote-learning platform that takes face scans and voiceprints of students. Virtual classrooms where strangers can pop up out of the blue and see who’s in class.
These three unnerving scenarios are not hypothetical. Rather, they stand as stark, real-life examples of how remote learning during the pandemic – both at the K-12 and college level – has become riddled with threats to students’ privacy.
As a scholar of privacy, I believe all the electronic eyes watching students these days have created privacy concerns that merit more attention.
Which is why, increasingly, you will see aggrieved students, parents and digital privacy advocates seeking to hold schools an...