Remote Teaching During the Emergency and Beyond: Four Open Privacy and Data Protection Issues of ‘Platformised’ Education
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: Due to the spread of Covid-19 in the first months of 2020, almost all Universities across Europe \nhad to close their buildings and migrate online. This rapid shift towards the provision of education \nonline has been characterized by the externalization to and use of third-party service providers, \nraises several concerns, especially from a privacy and data protection perspective. The aim of this \npaper is to map the possible data protection risks emerging from the platformisation of education \nby focusing on the most pressing points of friction with the European data privacy regime: 1) allocation of roles and responsibilities of the actors involved; 2) transparency of the processing and \npossibility to effectively exercise data subjects’ rights; 3) extra-EU data transfers after Schrems II; \n4) challenges of e-proctoring systems. \nThe paper argues that the implementation of the right to privacy and data protection in remote \nteaching is not merely an issue of compliance, but a substantial measure that Universities shall \nensure to guarantee the fundamental rights of our students and colleagues. The paper concludes \nwith recommendations for ensuring a safer and fairer remote teaching experience, also discussing \nlong-term strategies beyond the emergency and beyond the mere compliance with the General \nData Protection Regulation. \nsuch as Zoom, for ensuring the continuity of learning. The ‘platformisation’ of education, however,
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3131092764