Posted on 10/12/2021 4:02:48 AM PDT by gattaca
Schools across the United States reportedly handed out laptops to pupils for distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic — and then spied on them with the very same electronic device, according to a Monday report from The Guardian.
What are the details? According to recently released research from the Center for Democracy and Technology, 86% of teachers polled said their schools provided electronic learning devices — such as tablets, laptops, and Chromebooks — for students to use at home at nearly double the rate when compared year over year.
Many of those devices, however, were reportedly being used to monitor students — even going as far as to "[comb] through private chats, emails, and documents" — in order to protect them from harassment and suicidal ideations.
The research noted that more than 80% of teachers surveyed admitted that their schools used such surveillance software on those student devices.
One anonymous administrator told the Center for Democracy and Technology that many teachers believe that spying on kids for the greater good will have only positive impacts on the students being surveilled.
Don't miss out on content from Dave Rubin free of big tech censorship. Listen to The Rubin Report now. "We knew that there were students out there having ideations around suicide, self-harm and those sorts of things," the administrator said. “[W]e found this [student activity monitoring software]. We could also do a good job with students who might be thinking about bullying ... [I]f I can save one student from committing suicide, I feel like that platform is well worth every dime that we paid for [it]."
Administrators noted that technology that might help reduce the rate of bullying or teen suicide can only work to benefit students and their families, thus creating a more harmonious school experience.
What else? The study also found that students using school-issued devices were, naturally, "monitored to a greater extent than their peers using personal devices," and noted that students in underserved communities were more likely to be surveilled when compared to their more affluent peers who may utilize their own personal electronic devices.
"[Local educational agencies] with wealthier student populations reported that their students are more likely to have access to personal devices, which are subject to less monitoring than school-issued devices," the report added. "Most prevalent community concerns were focused on appropriate use of student activity monitoring data for disciplinary purposes."
The study's authors concluded, "With the expansion of school-issued devices and student activity monitoring software, this study examined their impact and whether student recipients of school-issued devices were subject to more monitoring than their peers using devices that they or their families own. Based on reports from LEAs, it would appear that students using school-issued devices are subject to more monitoring than their peers using personal devices."
Sounds racist to me
The joke’s been kicking around for awhile:
1960s: “Shhhhhhh. Be careful, man. I think the CIA is tapping my phone line.”
2020a: “Alexa, does the CIA have a good recipe for apple pie?”
We invite people to spy on us and then act surprised when they do.
There are always a million excuses to spy on people.
We hear a lot of them around here.
It is evil.
Period.
A bunch of pedos at work.
They are also getting huge profits from data mining children...
“At the same time that Nomani was calling Garland out, another PDE leader tweeted screenshots of what she alleged were Panorama Education surveys.
“Parents are concerned over intrusive surveys and ‘screeners’ that ask 12-year-olds if they are pansexual or gender fluid. The surveys are often created/administered by [Panorama Education],” Erika Sanzi noted.
Clarification: the images in the tweet below of a survey asking students whether they are “pansexual, aromantic / asexual” comes from Cambridge Education LLC. Here is a @PanoramaEd survey asking students if they are “genderqueer, nonbinary, or fluid.”https://t.co/wI4VC8yzwj https://t.co/Cp5h4ewRdR pic.twitter.com/vGJ3BTzanD
— Erika Sanzi (@esanzi) October 7, 2021
One image reportedly shows a survey that asks whether the child is “gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, aromantic, asexual, or questioning.” A second image shows a question that asks about the child’s gender, offering the following options: Male, Female, Transgender Male, Transgender Female, Genderqueer or Genderfluid, Questioning, My identity is not listed, Prefer not to answer.
Alexa, Siri etc = Big Brother.
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This is certainly not the first report we've seen of schools spying on kids using school issued laptops.
One could wonder how a school district could justify the cost of school issued laptops when they are always in a budget crisis. This would explain it handily.
This vile bastardization of science (XX v XY) is plain insanity, specifically thrust upon a degrading civilization by evil charlatans. Follow the science? Only when it serves the Marxist/Nazi agenda.
I remember my old school handed out chromebooks to every student a few years ago. It never occurred to be there was an ulterior motive... That is really creepy. Super creepy. And illegal. Parents should find out what these schools did with their children’s search data, and sue.
Surveillance software usually has a price-tag attached. So in this case, not only was the teacher and head-administrator given viewing privileges....but the company who sold the package probably had the privileges’ as well.
Funny, when I grew up kids learned from TEXTBOOKS far better than they do now from computers. And as far as I can remember, no hardcover book ever spied on its readers.
This is most likely exactly what happened. It's so sick - school administrators selling out their students' searches to Google and other companies, in exchange for a totally illegal invasion of privacy... Both ends of this deal are filthy as can be.
>>Alexa, Siri etc = Big Brother.
Yea, but still not as bad as facebook and google which are crawling with undercover NSA plants working inside/alongside the company
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” ― C.S. Lewis
Big Brother is watching... the children... for their own good. Wow.
Seems a violation of a number of laws.
New Jersey teachers alarmed by union training to log COVID vaccine convos with parents, students
Bet it's not just in NJ...
Hey, DeSantis and Abbott, are they doing this in your states, too...?
Amen. Get your kids OUT. I made the move to Virginia to be near the grandkids, and to help transition them from government school to homeschool. Still no luck. Parents are half brainwashed and still believe they’re better off in school. Biding my time and getting ready. If the clot shot mandates for kids is instituted here the kids WILL be out.
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