AwarenessWork, school & institutions
Ed-tech data
Classroom apps whose privacy policy is really a commercial licence.
Understand it
Schools lean on free and low-cost learning apps, many of which collect far more about a child than the lesson needs - behaviour, performance, device details - and whose business model is the data. Parents rarely get a real choice about which are used.
How to spot it
The list of apps a school uses, and their privacy policies, tells you who holds your child’s data.
Close the gap
- Ask the school which apps it uses and what each one collects.
- Raise it with the school if an app over-collects - schools have data-protection duties.
- Where there is a choice, prefer apps that minimise data.
- Keep a child’s personal email and accounts separate from school tools.
What to do about it
This is data other organisations collect about you, and you often can't simply opt out. What you can do is use your UK data rights to see what they hold and object to how it's used.