Protected Users: A Moodle Plugin To Improve Confidentiality and Privacy Support through User Aliases
Protected Users: A Moodle Plugin To Improve Confidentiality and Privacy Support through User Aliases
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DOI：
10.3390/su12062548
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发表时间：
2020-03-02
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3.9
通讯作者：
Jose Casan, Maria
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作者：
Amo, Daniel;Alier, Marc;Jose Casan, Maria
任何学习管理系统（LMS）的隐私政策、条款和使用条件都是单向合同。学校规定了学生可以接受或拒绝的条款。学生一旦接受条件，就应该能够行使《通用数据保护条例》（GDPR）赋予的权利。然而，学生不能反对数据处理和公开分析，因为这将被视为教师正常执行工作的障碍。尽管如此，关于GDPR和咨询的法律的顾问，如果提供足够的个人理由，学生可以在LMS中要求身份匿名。相反，当前的LMS没有任何能够实现身份匿名化的功能。这是一个很大的问题，它会产生不希望的情况，迫切需要一个明确的解决方案。在这项工作中，我们对学生和教师进行了调查，以验证使用别名在LMS中匿名身份的可行性和可接受性，作为解决问题的可持续解决方案。考虑到积极的结果，我们为Moodle开发了一个用户友好的插件，可以通过使用别名来实现学生的身份匿名化。这个插件，在本作品中呈现并命名为Protected users，在GitHub上公开在线提供，并在GNU通用公共许可证下发布。
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.