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School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy for Unproven Promises of Safety. (www.eff.org)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 154 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (16 children)

If your kids' school laptops are surveilled, they're surveilled by someone. Let's call that someone Joe. Joe is a person who took a low-paying job that lets him surveil your kids. Joe likes his job, because he gets to surveil your kids. He gets to turn on the camera and look in your kids' room. He gets to read the chat messages your kids send to their classmates.

Your kids would be better off without Joe in their lives. Joe is not a source of security. Joe is not protecting your kids; Joe is a threat to them.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (11 children)

I work IT in schools. There is limited surveillance tools on college owned devices. Mainly logging of web traffic. Screens can be viewed when on campus network, not reachable off campus.

No one in our department has time to waste looking at web history or screens. Teachers don't bother to use it much either. We only look at it when directed by college executive or when I go in there at the end of term to clear the alerts.

I'd imagine most other schools are similar, no one gives a shit what kids are doing on their devices

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So if no one gives a shit anyway you don’t need the surveillance capabilities anyway, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

a private school needs to give the appearance that they do, or at least have this capability when someone asks. On the ground, its barely used

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