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Surveillance in Schools Across Europe: A New Phenomenon in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic? The Cases of Greece and France

Anastasia Karagianni , Vagelis Papakonstantinou

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Karagianni A, Papakonstantinou V. Surveillance in schools across europe: a new phenomenon in light of the COVID-19 pandemic? The cases of Greece and France. European J Ed Res. 2022;11(2):1219-1229. doi: 10.12973/eu-jer.11.2.1219
Karagianni, A., & Papakonstantinou, V. (2022). Surveillance in schools across europe: a new phenomenon in light of the COVID-19 pandemic? The cases of Greece and France. European Journal of Educational Research, 11(2), 1219-1229. https://doi.org/10.12973/eu-jer.11.2.1219
Karagianni Anastasia, and Vagelis Papakonstantinou. "Surveillance in Schools Across Europe: A New Phenomenon in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic? The Cases of Greece and France," European Journal of Educational Research 11, no. 2 (2022): 1219-1229. https://doi.org/10.12973/eu-jer.11.2.1219
Karagianni, A & Papakonstantinou, 2022, 'Surveillance in schools across europe: a new phenomenon in light of the COVID-19 pandemic? The cases of Greece and France', European Journal of Educational Research, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 1219-1229. Karagianni, Anastasia, and Vagelis Papakonstantinou. "Surveillance in Schools Across Europe: A New Phenomenon in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic? The Cases of Greece and France." European Journal of Educational Research, vol. 11, no. 2, 2022, pp. 1219-1229, https://doi.org/10.12973/eu-jer.11.2.1219.

Abstract

Surveillance technology is more and more used in educational environments, which results in mass privacy violations of kids and, thus, the processing of huge amount of children’s data in the name of safety. Methodology used is doctrinal, since the focus of this research was given in the implementation of the legal doctrine of data protection law in the educational environments. More than that, the cases of Greece and France regarding the use of surveillance technologies in schools are carefully studied in this article. Privacy risks that both children and educators are exposed to are underlined. In these terms, this research paper focuses on the proper implementation of the European data protection framework and the role of Data Protection Authorities as control mechanisms, so that human rights risks from the perspective of privacy and data protection to be revealed, and the purposes of the use of such technologies to be evaluated. This study is limited in the legal examination of the European General Data Protection Regulation, and its implementation in the legal orders of Greece and France, and practice pertaining to the case studies of Greece and France respectively.

Keywords: Bio-surveillance, children’s rights, data protection, privacy, video-surveillance.


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