Welcome to our Tech Roundup, where we bring you the biggest stories in technology and innovation in Brazil and Latin America. This week: An app from the São Paulo state education secretariat was installed on teachers’ and students’ phones without their consent.
An intruder app on teachers’ and students’ phones
Between Tuesday and Wednesday of last week, teachers and students at public schools in São Paulo state reported that a government app had appeared on their phones without their consent.
Context. The Minha Escola SP app was launched in 2018 by the previous government of Márcio França. It was designed to allow students, parents, and guardians to track information such as school report cards and recorded absences.
- Still available on the Play Store, the app is registered in the name of the Data Processing Company of the State of São Paulo (Prodesp), an information technology company of the state government.
Why it matters. If confirmed, the act represents a significant violation of the country’s data protection law (LGPD), which has been in effect since September 2020.
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