Euractiv reports on privacy issues the EU faces with online learning and using more educational technology in the wake of COVID-19. Concerns were raised about the collection of students' data through artificial intelligence-based edtech deployments, which will only grow as students return to school this fall, and what sufficient safeguards should look like for those deployments. "We need spaces where we can rethink, assess and deploy technology in a beneficial and safe way for everyone," London School of Economics Researcher Ioanna Noula said.
Privacy risks with EU's remote learning, rise in edtech
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