www/server/staging governments-let-companies-sn...

[Dora Scilipoti]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Dora Scilipoti <dora>   22/06/13 07:40:21

Added files:
        server/staging : 
                         governments-let-companies-snoop-on-students.html 

Log message:
        Draft for new article by RMS.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/staging/governments-let-companies-snoop-on-students.html?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1

Patches:
Index: governments-let-companies-snoop-on-students.html
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RCS file: governments-let-companies-snoop-on-students.html
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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>Many Governments Encourage Schools to Let Companies Snoop on 
+Students - 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!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE--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>Many Governments Encourage Schools to Let Companies Snoop on 
+Students</h2>
+
+<address class="byline">by Richard Stallman</address>
+<hr class="thin" />
+<div class="article">
+
+<p>Human Rights Watch studied 164 software programs and web sites 
+recommended by various governments for schools to make students use.  It 
+found that 146 of them <a 
+href="https://www.hrw.org/report/2022/05/25/how-dare-they-peep-my-private-life/childrens-rights-violations-governments";>
+gave data to advertising and tracking companies</a>.</p>
+
+<p>The researchers were thorough and checked for various snooping methods, 
+including fingerprinting of devices to identify users.  The targets of the 
+investigation were not limited to programs and sites specifically 
+&rdquo;for education;&ldquo; they included, for instance, Zoom and
+Microsoft Teams.</p>
+
+<p>I expect that each program collected personal data for its developer.
+I'm not sure whether the results counted that, but they should.  Once
+the developer company gets personal data, it can provide that data to
+advertising profilers, as well as to other companies and governments, and
+it can engage directly in manipulation.</p>
+
+<p>The recommendations Human Rights Watch makes follow the usual approach
+of regulating the use of data once collected.  This is fundamentally
+inadequate; <a 
+href="/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">personal data, once 
+collected, will surely be misused</a>.</p>
+
+<p>The only approach that makes it possible to end massive surveillance
+starts with demanding that the software be free.  Then users will be
+able to modify the software to avoid giving real data to companies.</p>
+<div class="column-limit"></div>
+
+<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>
+</div>
+</div>
+<!--#include virtual="/education/education-menu.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
+<div id="footer" role="contentinfo">
+<div class="unprintable">
+
+<p>Please send general FSF &amp; GNU inquiries to
+<a href="mailto:gnu@gnu.org";>&lt;gnu@gnu.org&gt;</a>.
+There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
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+Please see the <a
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+README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations
+of this article.</p>
+</div>
+
+<!-- Regarding copyright, in general, standalone pages (as opposed to
+     files generated as part of manuals) on the GNU web server should
+     be under CC BY-ND 4.0.  Please do NOT change or remove this
+     without talking with the webmasters or licensing team first.
+     Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the
+     document.  For web pages, it is ok to list just the latest year the
+     document was modified, or published.
+     
+     If you wish to list earlier years, that is ok too.
+     Either "2001, 2002, 2003" or "2001-2003" are ok for specifying
+     years, as long as each year in the range is in fact a copyrightable
+     year, i.e., a year in which the document was published (including
+     being publicly visible on the web or in a revision control system).
+     
+     There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
+     Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
+
+<p>Copyright &copy; 2022 Richard Stallman</p>
+
+<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/";>Creative
+Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
+
+<!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" -->
+
+<p class="unprintable">Updated:
+<!-- timestamp start -->
+$Date: 2022/06/13 11:40:18 $
+<!-- timestamp end -->
+</p>
+</div>
+</div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include -->
+</body>
+</html>