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Content type: Advocacy
We submitted a report to the Commission of Jurists on the Brazilian Artificial Intelligence Bill focussed on highlighting the potential harms associated with the use of AI within schools and the additional safeguards and precautions that should be taken when implementing AI in educational technology.The use of AI in education technology and schools has the potential to interfere with the child’s right to education and the right to privacy which are upheld by international human rights standards…
Content type: Long Read
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India’s educational system is the largest in the world, with over 250 million students, 50% of whom attend publicly administered schools.
The autonomy given by the Indian Constitution to the 28 states and 8 union territories means that the right to education is implemented quite differently in each one, respecting culture, language, and other local specificities. Educational policies are suggested at the national level by various autonomous agencies and states can implement them in…
Content type: Advocacy
Privacy International made a submission to the 41st Universal Period Review Session at the UN Human Rights council expressing concerns with the ways in which EdTech has been deployed through out Brazil, particularly unfettered access to and transfer of children's data, and the roll out of facial recognition, particularly without transparency or consent.This stakeholder report focusses solely on concerns related to the use of education technology (‘EdTech') in Brazil, and the subsequent…
Content type: Advocacy
Privacy International wish to express our significant concerns over the poorly considered roll out of facial recognition in multiple parts of the Indian schooling system, especially the roll out in classrooms in Delhi.We also wish to raise concerns over the lax legal framework that currently regulates EdTech in India, which we do not believe adequately protects the human rights of the 250 million students in India's educational system.RecommendationsPI recommends India to ban the use of facial…