In each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to get it, researchers said.

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Sharman Gill reports: …  BYU research finds that EdTech vendors don’t always meet their student privacy obligations; that research has led to new Utah legislation that tightens up the privacy issues. In an August 2025 investigation report prepared for the Utah State Board of Education (USBE), BYU information systems professors Mark Keith and Justin Giboney found major... Source

An Adelphi University student who was accused of using artificial intelligence on an assignment has won a lawsuit against the institution, Newsday reported, with a federal judge ruling that the findin...

The growth of the Education Technology (EdTech) sector in recent years has been accompanied by predictions that new digital platforms will disrupt HE. However, there remains a disjuncture between p...

Companies like Google and Microsoft have used their money, their might and their massive reach to influence nearly every step of the education supply chain.

Photo by Bozhin Karaivanov on Unsplash The introduction of generative AI into school settings remains highly controversial almost four years after the launch of ChatGPT. One source of growing publi…

This second post by Neil Selwyn and his collaborators shares some of the preliminary results from their research survey, which was discussed in an RW post earlier this year ‘Academics’ …

The Education Department has long collected civil rights data about things like bullying, harassment and disability services in schools, but it hasn't made the latest information public.

Five years later, its lead author revisits the paper in the age of ChatGPT

Photo by Camille Villanueva on Unsplash The research field of artificial intelligence in education (AIED) has a long history of investigating the effects of AI on learning and other educational out…

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Code Acts in Education explores how code, and the software algorithms and digital data practices it enables, are reshaping education in schools and universities. This site features updates from res…

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