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Titolo
Protected Users: A Moodle Plugin To Improve Confidentiality and Privacy Support through User Aliases
Autor(es)
Soggetto
LMS
Moodle
GDPR
Plugin
Data privacy
Confidentiality
Alias
Digital identity
Sustainability
Clasificación UNESCO
1203.17 Informática
Fecha de publicación
2020-03-24
Citación
Amo, D., Alier, M., García-Peñalvo, F. J., Fonseca, D., & Casañ, M. J. (2020). Protected Users: A Moodle Plugin To Improve Confidentiality and Privacy Support through User Aliases. Sustainability, 12(6), Article 2548. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12062548
Resumen
[EN]The privacy policies, terms, and conditions of use in any Learning Management System
(LMS) are one-way contracts. The institution imposes clauses that the student can accept or decline.
Students, once they accept conditions, should be able to exercise the rights granted by the General
Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). However, students cannot object to data processing and public
profiling because it would be conceived as an impediment to teachers to execute their work with
normality. Nonetheless, regarding GDPR and consulted legal advisors, a student could claim
identity anonymization in the LMS, if adequate personal justifications are provided. Per contra, the
current LMSs do not have any functionality that enables identity anonymization. This is a big
problem that generates undesired situations which urgently requires a definitive solution. In this
work, we surveyed students and teachers to validate the feasibility and acceptance of using aliases
to anonymize their identity in LMSs as a sustainable solution to the problem. Considering the
positive results, we developed a user-friendly plugin for Moodle that enables students' identity
anonymization by the use of aliases. This plugin, presented in this work and named Protected users,
is publicly available online at GitHub and published under GNU General Public License.
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DOI
doi.org/10.3390/su12062548
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