Privacy for Students: Surveillance Self-Defense
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#3> “If authority figures for youth say constant surveillance is OK, what happens when a romantic partner wants access to every message on their phone? Or an employer wants your social media password? Invasive monitoring isn’t acceptable, no matter who tries to do it, and personal privacy matters.”
I think that it is even worse than that. In a decade or two, we are going to learn the many cases of sexual abuse that this surveillance facilitated. To give such an absolute power to adults over other people's children never ends well. And the kind of person that wants to spy on kids and teenagers 24/7 is the kind of person that should not be allowed to work with them.
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#4Reads like this is about some highly guarded prison in a dystopian future.
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#5Looks like I will be a parent in this mess!
My own kids are done, but I have my granddaughter to raise. (Rough, but she is great and will probably make me live longer, so no worries.)
This is going to be a fight! That level of surveillance is unacceptable. I have no plan yet, but will in a year or so. Guess it is wake up call time.
Seriously, I look back at my upbringing and what I was able to do for my kids, and shudder. I cannot imagine this ends well.
Can you? Seriously. Anyone want to talk me down, or just talk?
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#6Surveillance in schools is a symptom, not a cause.
To keep it focused on technology though, schools are super interesting - physical security is routinely violated. The iPhone really needs a dual-password mode, or some similar strategy, to protect its users.
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#7I feel like educators watched Ferris Bueller’s day off, and decided they would crush that spirit with totalitarian tactics. What’s the point of this level of control?
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#8The one sort of surveillance schools need is live webcams so parents can monitor lesson content
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#9Why do people (schools) care?
What's the goal here?
How does tracking everything a student does help them and how can they justify wasting time and money on this?
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#10My schools tried to require school owned apple equipment that both restricted actions (couldn’t message with parents or email) and monitored all activity, even when used from home.
I forced my own equipment and they tried to install and reinstall various spyware throughout the year.
It seems like rather than proposing a basic system of assignments and material and grades, they are trying to treat as a wholly owned ecosystem.
This is also one of the things that frustrates me about “work computers” but at least they have a bit more claim since work computers are tools for work while school should be about learning.