The perversion of the Internet: scraping and selling children’s data from ed tech tools

Most online learning platforms sent or granted access to children’s data to third-party companies, usually advertising technology (AdTech) companies. In doing so, they appear to have permitted the sophisticated algorithms of AdTech companies the opportunity to stitch together and analyze these data to guess at a child’s personal characteristics and interests, and to predict what a child might do next and how they might be influenced.

https://www.tonybates.ca/2022/05/29/the-perversion-of-the-internet-scraping-and-selling-childrens-data-from-ed-tech-tools/