Relevance to Internet Governance: It is crucial to Internet Governance to deal with data protection, specially related to children and teenagers. AI is prominent resource and it can certainly promote improvements in the teaching and learning processes, but it is essential to protect rights and also to promote people's citizens awareness regarding the evolution of technology. In the case of basic education, the problem is even greater because it involves children and adolescents. Data Protection Laws are emerging or come into force in different countries, which bring a specific article on data protection for this group, so schools and educational systems need to rethink their role in relation to the choices they make, as well as promoting professional development for teachers and teaching students on the importance of this issue. Once public-private partnerships are established and service migrations are made, such as institutional e-mails, it is very difficult for institutions and networks to reverse their dependency on these new systems.
Relevance to Theme: With COVID-19, a large number of tech companies and platforms begin offering tools for distance education as a way to maintain educational activities. Many of them provided ‘free’ services to encourage use of their systems and services. “Surveillance capitalism,” a term used to designate business models based on the extensive extraction of personal data by algorithms and artificial intelligence techniques in order to obtain predictions about user behavior, using this information to offer and sell products and services. There is a lack of regulation of partnerships established by public education with commercial organizations, which compromise the right to privacy and personal data protection of citizens, particularly children and adolescents. These partnerships do not involve the expenditure of financial resources by the public administration. However, there is a hidden value extracted from the collection of our data and metadata.
