ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how online education technologies broadly adopted during COVID-19 may infringe users’ privacy, by introducing the writer’s own and her colleagues’ experiences in providing data. The chapter introduces commonly used EdTech and how they function and highlights some of the widely practiced usage patterns in online education that lead to privacy and security vulnerabilities of one’s confidential information and personal safety. After analyzing these issues in China, the chapter provides a good practice episode in Guangdong province, and suggests plausible solutions for stakeholders. The chapter concludes that online EdTech is becoming a new normal in the post-Covid era and predicts a positive future for it. But even as stakeholders make up for past mistakes, they should pay more attention to privacy issues so that digital development will be constructive.
