Call to shut down Bristol schools’ use of app to ‘monitor’ pupils and families
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Re: Call to shut down Bristol schools’ use of app to ‘monitor’ pupils and families
#2> Bristol city council and Avon and Somerset police, who worked together on the system, insist it is in place to protect children, not criminalise them
Of course! When has surveillance been used for anything, but protection?
Re: Call to shut down Bristol schools’ use of app to ‘monitor’ pupils and families
#3"The force said “robust privacy and sharing agreements” had been approved by the Information Commissioner’s Office and development of the system done in collaboration with the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation."
...but not the parents.
Re: Call to shut down Bristol schools’ use of app to ‘monitor’ pupils and families
#4The title made it sound like the schools were installing malware on students' devices, but as far as I can tell this is just a central database bringing together data from different government agencies.
I'm not sure I see the problem with schools getting an update that a kid was arrested by police or that their family is on food aid or something. Schools in my area need to know which kids are living in poverty because they send home backpacks of food with them over the summer.
Re: Call to shut down Bristol schools’ use of app to ‘monitor’ pupils and families
#5Why would they keep it secret from the families and children unless it's doing something nefarious?
Re: Call to shut down Bristol schools’ use of app to ‘monitor’ pupils and families
#6"The force said “robust privacy and sharing agreements” had been approved by the Information Commissioner’s Office and development of the system done in collaboration with the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation." ...but not the parents.
Are these government institutions in Bristol? If so do they have public blogs or other citizen friendly mechanics for sharing important decisions?
Re: Call to shut down Bristol schools’ use of app to ‘monitor’ pupils and families
#7Why would they keep it secret from the families and children unless it's doing something nefarious?
Quite, if you've done nothing wrong then you've nothing to hide ...
Re: Call to shut down Bristol schools’ use of app to ‘monitor’ pupils and families
#8> Bristol city council and Avon and Somerset police, who worked together on the system, insist it is in place to protect children, not criminalise them Of course! When has surveillance been used for anything, but protection?
This is a category error. The worst uses of surveillance in general do not apply to this case, unless someone tells us how it does.
Re: Call to shut down Bristol schools’ use of app to ‘monitor’ pupils and families
#9Why would they keep it secret from the families and children unless it's doing something nefarious?
Quite, if you've done nothing wrong then you've nothing to hide ...
If we've done nothing wrong, then why are they looking...
By the way, can you send me your bank and credit card details so that I can just verify that you've done nothing wrong?
Re: Call to shut down Bristol schools’ use of app to ‘monitor’ pupils and families
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