If you believe in privacy for your family think again. It is now known that teachers had software installed on the equipment sent to your children to monitor their private emails.
The problem is, a lot of those electronics were being used to monitor students, even combing through private chats, emails and documents all in the name of protecting them. More than 80% of surveyed teachers and 77% of surveyed high school students told the CDT that their schools use surveillance software on those devices, and the more reliant students are on those electronics, unable to afford supplementary phones or tablets, the more they are subjected to scrutiny.
Thousands of school districts across the United States have installed surveillance software on school-provided devices to monitor their students’ online interactions. If a student emails or chats with another student saying they’ve been thinking of hurting themselves or that there is trouble at home, an AI bot or a human moderator watching over the messages in real time can send an alert to a teacher or administrator, allowing the teacher to jump in within minutes and ask if everything is OK.
Conversely, there is now a clamor to have cameras placed in classrooms to monitor what teachers say and do. The National Education Association and Federation of Teachers is 100% against this invasion of privacy.
Sort of makes you wonder, doesn't it? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/11/us-students-digital-surveillance-schools
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