Smart educational games and Consent under the scope of General Data Protection Regulation

Abstract

Intelligent gaming’s appeal in education is growing, thanks to the learning-by-gaming enjoyment factor. Such games, especially artificial intelligence equipped ones, engage in data collection and processing. Both activities fall under the provisions of the new EU data privacy framework, known as GDPR. As such, Authors focus on GDPR principle of personal data processing consent and try to low balance between gaming amusement, educational benefits and regulatory compliance. While doing so, they combine Legal with Computer Sciences with the purpose of proposing applicable solutions with the form of guidelines towards gaming stakeholders in general as well as educational gaming stakeholders in specific.