“In these weeks we have received a lot of proposals, trying to sell all kinds of devices and applications, the market and private companies are at a standstill and will not miss the opportunity. We have to be attentive”, warns us Labastida professor Iñigo Beristain. Not in vain, the use of digital platforms, programs and applications has become the new scenario of confinement education.

Big tech companies offer attractive, easy-to-use educational packages, including Google Classroom, or a highly successful Chromebook, which only features Google programs, and many have swallowed the hook. Google and Microsoft say they don't use or sell data derived from it, but the voices questioning it are numerous and Google, for example, has been accused of using student data for private purposes.

Current users, future customers

In the Big Data era, gold-valued personal data is in the hands of these multinationals and their use and trade is worrying: they can be personalized advertising tools, but also very interesting information for insurance companies, such as banks and other businesses. Not only that, the Librezale movement also criticizes in Education that big tech companies, feeding students' dependence on these programs, are creating future customers, turning students into products of multinationals.

Faced with complaints from parents, in Catalonia they have decided to create their own platform for digital learning, which will be outside private companies. The Government of Navarre has also announced the same.