An incident in a third cycle classroom of primary education atAndorran school of Santa Coloma has revealed a security flaw that allowed thestudent access to sexual content with one Center iPadand has prompted the recall of all devices until the issue is resolved. The facts happened around Sant Joanwhile thestudents did cooperative work with tablets: in the case of primary school students (those in the third cycle have between 10 and 12 years) classrooms have five devices for group work. A teacher noticed that he entered two and three students they were watching content not suitable for their age and that it had nothing to do with the educational task. The teacher alerted the center’s management and, subsequently, the facts were brought to the attention of the ministry, which, as a preventive measure, has removed all the tablets from theAndorran school until the problem is solved. In September, once the course resumes, it is expected to be resolved.
The incident happened in a primary school classroom
the parents ofschool of Santa Coloma they were informed this week of the facts. The management details in a communication the concreteness of the problem, it is defended that the school’s filters that prevent theaccess to inappropriate content they work but that the problem lies in the application of Google for iPadwhich “presented an erroneous image search behavior and allowed the user to disable the safe search filter (SafeSearch).” Government sources pointed out that a change in the policy of technological security of which education was not aware of it nor had he been informed is behind the incident, and that now from the area of Technological development of the ministry the issue is being discussed with the company to reset the firewalls. “The protection of your children is our highest priority. Faced with this unforeseen technological event, we have acted immediately”, defends the letter, which details the measures taken below: the withdrawal of the devices, the work of the IT teams of the ministry to solve the problem and intervene in the rest of the school computer equipment “to ensure that navigation continues to be completely restricted and safe”. The issue was also referred to by the Minister Spokesperson at the press conference of the Council of Ministers. Guillem Casal expressed the concern of the Government for the incident and the work to prevent it from happening again.
The problem would be a change in Google’s security policy
