As quoted in:
Dobo, Nichole. “Worry less, learn more about your child’s laptop or tablet.” 30 October 2018. The Hechinger Report/New York Times.
Assume no privacy on a school-owned device. Digital monitoring systems probably track everything students type into the computer including the websites they visit, said Douglas A. Levin, a school security expert. “Different school communities may have different viewpoints on that,” he said. “But it shouldn’t be a secret.”
The price of getting information about your child’s school should not be losing your privacy to online ad brokers.
Like big businesses, schools gather a lot of data. Unlike big businesses, they don’t have many IT and security resources to protect that information. Schools collect names and birth dates, social security numbers, discipline records and health records. With this data, thieves can create fake online identities, or sell the students’ information and identities.
State and local education agency websites routinely deploy third-party ad tracking technology. What purpose does it serve? Is it benign (and merely the cost of being on the web in 2017), or does it raise issues worthy of deeper investigation?