Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids

Post by Riverheart » Wed, Oct 23, 2019, 12:40 AM UTC

closeparen wrote: post #35

ASalazarMX wrote: post #15

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> They said it was all ok because that the actual fingerprints aren't stored on the system, only information derived from the fingerprints I hate this blatantly flawed reasoning. The data collection is the problem, and it doesn't matter if you store pictures of fingers/faces/irises/ids or just their post-process signatures, it's still data collection.

Forcing students to generate data and then using it against them isn’t incidental to education, it’s the whole thing. Imagine having the right to edit, delete, and restrict processing of your grades and attendance records. Imagine having the right to an equal shot at college admission while declining to reveal any test scores. It would upend everything about school.

Post by kart23 » Wed, Oct 23, 2019, 12:49 AM UTC

pvaldes wrote: post #55

grawprog wrote: post #2

>GoGuardian, a company that monitors students’ internet searches, that a student was doing a Google search for “how to kill myself” late one evening. How is it monitoring searches done at home in the evening?

The possibility of strike back, massively trolling all the school if students team and decide to search for controversial statements all the time, everybody at the same time, or search "What to do if a teacher try to abuse sexually of me" just for fun, is fabulous. Matherial of legend. If the alarm is triggered at a higher level, the school direction will gasp and remove the program in a hurry for fear of being signa…

Post by mensetmanusman » Wed, Oct 23, 2019, 1:18 AM UTC

Post by hackinthebochs » Wed, Oct 23, 2019, 2:10 AM UTC

gerbilly wrote: post #50

Ididntdothis wrote: post #21

It’s pretty much guaranteed that the next generation will grow up with the experience of always watched. Either they get watched by the parents who never let them do anything alone or by technology. Pretty sad in my view but almost inevitable.

I think you are right about everything but the timescale: the current generation of kids already grew up under constant surveillance...by their parents. When I grew up, during evenings weekends and holidays, kids ran around in the neighborhood with their friends from sunup to sundown. Outside of mealtimes, parents had no idea where we were. A generation later and parents started to time-box everything their kids do,…

Post by SN76477 » Wed, Oct 23, 2019, 2:24 AM UTC

slics wrote: post #56

How can the schools just allow any free product to be installed in their systems simply because someone offered them said service or product for free. These (test subjects) are our kids. There should be boundaries set forth by the law not to allow any said system or service to collect any data on kids under a given age. I guess as long as someone offers security - it’s ok to disregard privacy.