A data regulator, had found serious flaws in the platform that had exposed the data of hundreds of thousands of parents, children, and teachers.
“They wrote the police report in a way that was supposed to look scary,” Landgren says. In the following weeks, cybercrime investigators came to his house and interviewed him about the open source app—a process Landgren says caused him to doubt the work the team had done. “You have to make a decision at that point on what you’re trying to do,” he says. Ultimately he continued to work on the project—along with an expanding team—as they believed it was the right thing to do.
“It shows very clearly some of the ways in which Sweden’s digitalization has gone wrong,” says Mattias Rubenson, the secretary of the Swedish branch of the Pirate Party, which has been chronicling the problems it has with the. “There is, in general, the possibility of a school platform being good. But you have to involve students, and especially teachers, in the development from the start. There has been none of that in the School Platform.
“With this solution, the City of Stockholm can guarantee that personal data is handled in a correct and secure way, while parents can take part in the market’s digital tools in their everyday lives,” Isabel Smedberg-Palmqvist, a city councillor in Stockholm, said in aissued on September 9. The move was validation of Öppna Skolplattformen’s efforts—the team estimates that hundreds of hours of work have been put into the app. But the call also came as a shock to Landgren.
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