The growing use of remote, Internet-based cloud-computing services by European schools is putting students there at risk of being “tracked and profiled for online advertising purposes,” concludes a new report by SafeGov.org, an online forum for instructional technology experts.
“Sophisticated consumer-grade cloud services such as email, online content creation, and collaboration that several commercial cloud providers are now offering at no cost to European schools indisputably bring many educational benefits, [but] they also carry important privacy risks that school officials and parents often fail to measure,” according to the report.
