A passage is given below followed by several conclusions which can be drawn from the facts stated in the passages. You have to examine each inference separately in the context of the passage, decide upon its truth or falsity, and choose the conclusion that best supports the passage.
Since the onset of the pandemic, online education has replaced conventional classroom instruction. This has given rise to several EdTech apps which have become popular. To perform the process of learning customisation, the apps collect large quantities of data from the learners through the students' gadgets. These data are analysed in minute detail to customise learning and design future versions of the app and have a range of sensors apart from the camera and microphones. These provide data about the learner’s surroundings along with intimate data like the emotions and attitudes experienced and expressed via facial expressions and body temperature changes. Researchers dealing with human subjects need to comply with ethics rules along with global standards. One of the cardinal rules that should never be broken is informed consent. Before any research on human subjects is undertaken, researchers have to submit detailed proposals to their respective ethics committees and obtain their permissions. Further, a researcher working with children, for example, would also have to convince schoolteachers, parents, and school managements about the nature of the research to be undertaken, type of data to be collected, method of storage, the potentially harmful effects of such data, etc. The safeguards that traditional researchers are subject to are either missing or minimal in research that the EdTech industry promotes. The concept of informed consent is not meaningful since there are no proper primers to explain to stakeholders the intricacies in layperson terms. Since India does not have protection equivalent to the GDPR, private data collected by an EdTech company can be misused or sold to other companies with no oversight or protection.
The passage, if true, is best supported by which of the following conclusions?