School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy for Unproven Promises of Safety.
School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy for Unproven Promises of Safety.
Imagine your search terms, key-strokes, private chats and photographs are being monitored every time they are sent. Millions of students across the country don’t have to imagine this deep surveillance of their most private communications: it’s a reality that comes with their school districts’...
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At the junior high level last year, two potential suicides were flagged by search terms, a kid was caught dispensing fentanyl when a peer searched 'how much fentanyl to take', and an early stage threat was detected when was looking up bomb-making instructions.
That's what I know about from my caseload.
Woah, what did the school use?
No idea. I just work there. Sometimes the computer goes ding and we call in people to haul off a kid. /s
Seriously though, from the teacher-side it is called Class Policy, but I don't think that is the system that monitors and flags.