BSidesSF 2015 - Student Surveillance: How Hackers Can Help Protect Student Privacy (Jessy Irwin)

Student Surveillance: How Hackers Can Help Protect Student Privacy
Jessy Irwin

Since 2011, billions of dollars of venture capital investment have poured into public education through private, for-profit technologies that promise to revolutionize education. Designed for the “21st century” classroom, these tools promise to remedy the many, many societal ills facing public education with artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, and other technological advancements. But these tools are also being used to track and record every move students make in …

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