Thread by @doctorow

Even before lockdown, ed-tech had taken over America's public schools, with students increasingly completing assignments, accessing course materials and messaging each other and teachers through monolithic ed-tech platforms .And where you have IT, you have breaches.

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Ed-tech breaches are particularly ghastly - they've leaked teachers' databases of which kids are being bullied; students' medical and mental-health records; and information needed to steal millions from classroom funds.

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But as the @K12CyberMap project reports, the extent of these breaches has been vastly underreported, because breach-reports count compromised VENDORS, not compromised SCHOOLS.

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So when Pearson - one of the monopolistic giants of the ed-tech world - experienced a breach in 2018, that was counted as a single incident, even though it affected 135 school districts, each with many schools.

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The GAO's official breach figures count only 25% of the known breaches - and no one is counting the un-reported breaches, which the project believes could raise the figure by a factor of 10 or 20.

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