American schools' phone apps send children's info to ad networks, analytics firms
Get used to it, kid Share Copy 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 th...
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