Protected Users: A Moodle Plugin To Improve Confidentiality and Privacy Support through User Aliases

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 GeneralData Protection R...

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Autores: Amo Filvà, Daniel, Alier, Marc, GARCÍA-PEÑALVO, Francisco José, Fonseca, David, Casany, María José
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14342/3058
https://doi.org/10.3390/su12062548
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Protecció de dades
Informàtica -- Dret i legislació
Protecció de dades -- Innovacions tecnològiques
Protecció de dades -- Aspectes ambientals
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spelling Protected Users: A Moodle Plugin To Improve Confidentiality and Privacy Support through User AliasesAmo Filvà, DanielAlier, MarcGARCÍA-PEÑALVO, Francisco JoséFonseca, DavidCasany, María JoséProtecció de dadesInformàtica -- Dret i legislacióProtecció de dades -- Innovacions tecnològiquesProtecció de dades -- Aspectes ambientals0043462The 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 GeneralData Protection Regulation (GDPR). However, students cannot object to data processing and publicprofiling because it would be conceived as an impediment to teachers to execute their work withnormality. Nonetheless, regarding GDPR and consulted legal advisors, a student could claim identityanonymization in the LMS, if adequate personal justifications are provided. Per contra, the currentLMSs do not have any functionality that enables identity anonymization. This is a big problemthat 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 toanonymize their identity in LMSs as a sustainable solution to the problem. Considering the positiveresults, we developed a user-friendly plugin for Moodle that enables students’ identity anonymizationby the use of aliases. This plugin, presented in this work and named Protected users, is publiclyavailable online at GitHub and published under GNU General Public License.MDPIUniversitat Ramon Llull. La SalleUniversitat Politècnica de CatalunyaUniversidad de Salamanca2020info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion16 p.http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14342/3058https://doi.org/10.3390/su12062548reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésSustainability, 2020, Vol. 12, No 6info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/PN I+D+i/TIN2016-80172info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SUR del DEC/SGR/2017-SGR-934© L'autor/aAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:20.500.14342/30582026-05-29T05:05:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Protected Users: A Moodle Plugin To Improve Confidentiality and Privacy Support through User Aliases
title Protected Users: A Moodle Plugin To Improve Confidentiality and Privacy Support through User Aliases
spellingShingle Protected Users: A Moodle Plugin To Improve Confidentiality and Privacy Support through User Aliases
Amo Filvà, Daniel
Protecció de dades
Informàtica -- Dret i legislació
Protecció de dades -- Innovacions tecnològiques
Protecció de dades -- Aspectes ambientals
004
34
62
title_short Protected Users: A Moodle Plugin To Improve Confidentiality and Privacy Support through User Aliases
title_full Protected Users: A Moodle Plugin To Improve Confidentiality and Privacy Support through User Aliases
title_fullStr Protected Users: A Moodle Plugin To Improve Confidentiality and Privacy Support through User Aliases
title_full_unstemmed Protected Users: A Moodle Plugin To Improve Confidentiality and Privacy Support through User Aliases
title_sort Protected Users: A Moodle Plugin To Improve Confidentiality and Privacy Support through User Aliases
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Amo Filvà, Daniel
Alier, Marc
GARCÍA-PEÑALVO, Francisco José
Fonseca, David
Casany, María José
author Amo Filvà, Daniel
author_facet Amo Filvà, Daniel
Alier, Marc
GARCÍA-PEÑALVO, Francisco José
Fonseca, David
Casany, María José
author_role author
author2 Alier, Marc
GARCÍA-PEÑALVO, Francisco José
Fonseca, David
Casany, María José
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universitat Ramon Llull. La Salle
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Universidad de Salamanca
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Protecció de dades
Informàtica -- Dret i legislació
Protecció de dades -- Innovacions tecnològiques
Protecció de dades -- Aspectes ambientals
004
34
62
topic Protecció de dades
Informàtica -- Dret i legislació
Protecció de dades -- Innovacions tecnològiques
Protecció de dades -- Aspectes ambientals
004
34
62
description 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 GeneralData Protection Regulation (GDPR). However, students cannot object to data processing and publicprofiling because it would be conceived as an impediment to teachers to execute their work withnormality. Nonetheless, regarding GDPR and consulted legal advisors, a student could claim identityanonymization in the LMS, if adequate personal justifications are provided. Per contra, the currentLMSs do not have any functionality that enables identity anonymization. This is a big problemthat 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 toanonymize their identity in LMSs as a sustainable solution to the problem. Considering the positiveresults, we developed a user-friendly plugin for Moodle that enables students’ identity anonymizationby the use of aliases. This plugin, presented in this work and named Protected users, is publiclyavailable online at GitHub and published under GNU General Public License.
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