Technological corporations, digital platforms and privacy: comparing the discourses about the entry of BigTech in public education

In the context of accelerated digitization of education, most public schools are using com-mercial digital platforms such as Google or Microsoft. This phenomenon, intensified dur-ing the COVID-19 pandemic, needs to be understood and analyzed by different perspec-tives and actors to find answers that allow for more sensible and secure use of these tools in educational contexts. In this scenario, this article explores the narratives on the protection of the privacy of users of digital platforms in schools and the protection of children's rights by the main actors in the educational field. The qualitative study is based on 14 interviews with key informants and analyzes their positions and statements concerning the use of commercial digital platforms in schools, the management of data, children's rights and the right to privacy. The results of this research shed light on the discursive tensions between the different educational actors around the entry of digital platforms of technological cor-porations in public schools.