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COEMPT Quality Assurance Engineers Allegedly Violated Indian CBSE Student Data Privacy Rights by Processing It with Google Gemini

May 30, 2026

A report by The Hindu reveals potential data privacy issues with India's Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) OnMark exam-marking portal. Ethical hacker Nisarga Adhikary alleges that COEMPT Eduteck quality-assurance scripts processed students' personal information via Google Gemini. The CBSE has confirmed the presence of vulnerabilities, but claims they have since been contained.

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Alleged deployer
government-of-india, coempt-eduteck, central-board-of-secondary-education
Alleged developer
large-language-model-developers, google
Alleged harmed parties
students-in-india, students, privacy, minors-in-india, minors, educational-communities, central-board-of-secondary-education-students

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