{"id":181,"date":"2014-11-16T18:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neurecall.com\/blog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2025-05-30T13:51:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T13:51:41","slug":"critics-speak-out-against-behavior-tracking-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syngli.com\/blog\/critics-speak-out-against-behavior-tracking-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Critics speak out against behavior-tracking apps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.syngli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/william-hook-9e9PD9blAto-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" data-id=\"1959\" src=\"https:\/\/www.syngli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/william-hook-9e9PD9blAto-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.syngli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/william-hook-9e9PD9blAto-unsplash.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.syngli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/william-hook-9e9PD9blAto-unsplash-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.syngli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/william-hook-9e9PD9blAto-unsplash-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@williamtm?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">William Hook<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/space-gray-iphone-x-9e9PD9blAto?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/17\/technology\/privacy-concerns-for-classdojo-and-other-tracking-apps-for-schoolchildren.html\">article<\/a>, Natasha Singer relates criticisms of behavior-tracking apps, in particular the most popular, ClassDojo, which its developer reports is now \u201cused by at least one teacher in roughly one out of three schools in the United States\u201d. Some of the concerns (expressed by \u201cparents, teachers and privacy law scholars\u201d) are that such technology:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>is often downloaded by teachers \u201cwithout vetting by school supervisors\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cis being adopted without sufficiently considering the ramifications for data privacy and fairness\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>is \u201ctoo subjective, enabling teachers to reward or penalize students for amorphous acts like \u2018disrespect.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201ccould potentially harm students\u2019 reputations by unfairly saddling some with \u2018a problem child\u2019 label that could stick with them for years\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201ctransfers the student\u2019s data to a company\u201d where they \u201cmight later be aggregated and analyzed in unforeseen ways\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo by William Hook on Unsplash. In a&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;article, Natasha Singer relates criticisms of behavior-tracking apps, in particular the most popular, ClassDojo, which its developer reports is now \u201cused by at least one teacher in roughly one out of three schools in the United States\u201d. 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