Uncovering Privacy and Security Challenges In K-12 Schools

Jake Chanenson; Brandon Sloane; Navaneeth Rajan; Amy Morril; Jason Chee; Danny Yuxing Huang; Marshini Chetty

doi:10.1145/3544548.3580777

Uncovering Privacy and Security Challenges In K-12 Schools

Jake Chanenson, Brandon Sloane, Navaneeth Rajan, Amy Morril, Jason Chee, Danny Yuxing Huang, Marshini Chetty

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

Increased use of technology in schools raises new privacy and security challenges for K-12 students - and harms such as commercialization of student data, exposure of student data in security breaches, and expanded tracking of students - but the extent of these challenges is unclear. In this paper, first, we interviewed 18 school officials and IT personnel to understand what educational technologies districts use and how they manage student privacy and security around these technologies. Second, to determine if these educational technologies are frequently endorsed across United States (US) public schools, we compiled a list of linked educational technology websites scraped from 15,573 K-12 public school/district domains and analyzed them for privacy risks. Our findings suggest that administrators lack resources to properly assess privacy and security issues around educational technologies even though they do pose potential privacy issues. Based on these findings, we make recommendations for policymakers, educators, and the CHI research community.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CHI 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450394215
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580777
State	Published - Apr 19 2023
Event	2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023 - Hamburg, Germany Duration: Apr 23 2023 → Apr 28 2023

Publication series

Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Conference

Conference	2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Hamburg
Period	4/23/23 → 4/28/23

Keywords

EdTech
K-12
educational technologies
student data privacy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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Chanenson, J., Sloane, B., Rajan, N., Morril, A., Chee, J., Huang, D. Y., & Chetty, M. (2023). Uncovering Privacy and Security Challenges In K-12 Schools. In CHI 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 592 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580777

Uncovering Privacy and Security Challenges In K-12 Schools. / Chanenson, Jake; Sloane, Brandon; Rajan, Navaneeth et al.
CHI 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2023. 592 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Chanenson, J, Sloane, B, Rajan, N, Morril, A, Chee, J, Huang, DY & Chetty, M 2023, Uncovering Privacy and Security Challenges In K-12 Schools. in CHI 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 592, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery, 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023, Hamburg, Germany, 4/23/23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580777

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