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[Dora Scilipoti]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Dora Scilipoti <dora>   22/04/23 12:47:29

Added files:
        server/staging : educational-malware-app-along.html 

Log message:
        First draft.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/staging/educational-malware-app-along.html?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1

Patches:
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+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.97 -->
+<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
+<title>Educational Malware App Along
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+
+<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/side-menu.css" media="screen" />
+<!--#include virtual="/server/gnun/initial-translations-list.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+
+<div class="nav">
+<a id="side-menu-button" class="switch" href="#navlinks">
+ <img id="side-menu-icon" height="32"
+      src="/graphics/icons/side-menu.png"
+      title="Education Contents"
+      alt="&nbsp;[Education Contents]&nbsp;" />
+</a>
+
+<p class="breadcrumb">
+ <a href="/"><img src="/graphics/icons/home.png" height="24"
+    alt="GNU Home" title="GNU Home" /></a>&nbsp;/
+ <a href="/education/education.html">Education</a>&nbsp;/
+ <a 
href="/education/bigtech-threats-to-education-and-society.html">Big&nbsp;Tech&nbsp;Threats</a>&nbsp;/</p>
+</div>
+
+<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE-->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" -->
+
+<div style="clear: both"></div>
+<div id="last-div" class="reduced-width">
+
+<div class="announcement comment" role="complementary">
+<p>
+More examples of 
+<a href="/proprietary/malware-edtech.html#content">malware in
+educational proprietary technologies</a>.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<h2>Educational Malware App &ldquo;Along&rdquo;</h2>
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<p>The nonfree <a 
+href="https://nepc.colorado.edu/sites/default/files/publications/Newsletter%20along.pdf";>
+&ldquo;education&rdquo; app Along</a>, developed by a company controlled 
+by Zuckerberg, encourages students to use it for private conversations 
+with their teachers. Some of the personal data it collects is 
+<em>very</em> sensitive. The company grants itself the power to sell 
+&ldquo;anonymized&rdquo; data, from which it will be possible to
+identify many of the students, perhaps most. In fact, research shows 
+that anonymization can be easily undone and data tracked back to 
+identify individuals uniquely.</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+<p><i>&ldquo;Computer scientists have recently undermined our faith in 
+the privacyprotecting power of anonymization, the name for techniques 
+that protect the privacy of individuals in large databases by deleting 
+information like names and social security numbers. These scientists 
+have demonstrated that they can often &lsquo;reidentify&rsquo; or 
+&lsquo;deanonymize&rsquo; individuals hidden in anonymized data with 
+astonishing ease.&rdquo;</i> <br />&mdash;From <a 
+href="https://www.uclalawreview.org/pdf/57-6-3.pdf";><cite>Broken 
+Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of 
+Anonymization</cite></a>, by Prof. Paul Ohm. UCLA Law Review, 2010. 57, 
+1701-1777.</p>
+</blockquote> 
+
+<p>Ohm's paper provides examples of how computer scientists were able to
+identify people from supposedly anonymized databases, while suggesting
+that the existing privacy legislation is innadecucate to properly 
+protect collected data. We hold that data should not be collected in 
+the first place and, above all, education should not marketized.</p>
+
+<p>The Along app invites teachers to <a 
+href="https://kappanonline.org/dont-go-along-with-corporate-schemes-to-gather-up-student-data/";>
+record personal questions</a> on video and ask the student to respond 
+with an audio or video recording. Through this process, the app 
+systematically guides teachers to interrogate students on the kind of 
+questions that interest profilers such as Facebook and other companies 
+would want to buy.</p>
+
+<p>Leading students to &ldquo;open up&rdquo; to teachers about things 
+outside of school may mean putting them in danger, because parents and 
+school administrators also are allowed to see students' replies, as well 
+as the teacher perself<a href="#per" id="per-rev">[1]</a>. This becomes 
+more ominous in the light of repressive laws in some US states. If a 
+student in Texas tells the school, &ldquo;I am taking a puberty 
+blocker&rdquo; or &ldquo;I'm so glad mom gave me money to travel to New 
+Mexico for an abortion,&rdquo; an administrator or a teacher who hears 
+this could sue the parents or try to get the state to take their 
+children away. They may even be legally required to do so.</p>
+
+<p>The student's parents might also punish per for things perse reveals
+in this way.</p>
+
+<p>To learn more:</p>
+
+<div class="important">
+<p>
+<a href="/education/resisting-proprietary-software.html#content">
+Resisting Proprietary Software</a> <br /> 
+<a 
href="/education/dangers-of-proprietary-systems-in-online-teaching.html#content">
+The Dangers of Proprietary Systems in Online Teaching</a>
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<h3 class="footnote">Footnote</h3>
+<p><a href="#per-rev" id="per">[1]</a>This article uses the 
+gender-neutral third-person pronouns <i>person</i> (which can be 
+shortened to <i>perse</i>), <i>per</i>,  <i>pers</i> and <i>perself</i>. 
+These pronouns (aside from <i>perse</i>) were promoted, and perhaps 
+invented, by Marge Piercy in <cite>Woman on the Edge of Time</cite>. 
+They are used just like <i>she</i>, <i>her</i>, <i>hers</i> and 
+<i>herself</i>, except that they apply regardless of gender.</p>
+
+
+</div>
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+<p class="unprintable">Updated:
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+$Date: 2022/04/23 16:47:28 $
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