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Virtual learning apps tracked and shared kids’ data, online activities – study
- red_admiral 4y agoIt is not suprising (at least to HN readers) but this is the kind of thing that can go in the evidence list if we ever want to push for more regulation in that area.
- kornhole 4y agoWe are not surprised, and hackers have the luxury of knowledge to avoid much of this. Preying on innocent, data illiterate, and captive children is the worst of privacy offenses.
- juanani 4y ago
- _trampeltier 4y agoIs really somebody surprised by such storys?
- InCityDreams 4y agoPoliticians pretend to be.
- everdrive 4y agoOf course they did. All apps do this. It's the reason the apps exist.
- hef19898 4y agoWay back when the iPhone 1 came out, I always wondered why the heck I would need an app. My non-smart Sony phone read e-mail, accessed the web, played music. Either through a media player or a dead simple, and clumsy I admit, browser. Now I know why everything has to be an app. Apps collect much more data then a browser ever could.
- technothrasher 4y agoYep, and it’s always so pathetic when somebody breaks their own website purposely on mobile and begs you to install the app. It just makes it all the more obvious that apps usually aren’t necessary versus a website.
- ultrarunner 4y agoThis is my major problem with Reddit, and what ultimately led to me deleting my account.
- WesolyKubeczek 4y agoIt’s the reason free apps exist, but if some of them are paid and doing this, it’s an incredible dick move.
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