The Yomiuri Shimbun reports:
Local governments have authorized Recruit Co. — a provider of educational apps — to directly obtain public school students’ personal data and manage it, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
The problem is connected to devices, such as personal computers and tablets, which elementary and junior high schools distribute to their students. Recruit sent some of the students’ personal data collected from its apps to foreign businesses or used the data to improve its other apps that were put up for sale, and the affected students’ parents or guardians were not given a sufficient explanation.
The education ministry plans to conduct a nationwide probe soon, believing some local governments have mismanaged the students’ personal data.
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