Whether on school-issued devices or downloaded onto students’ own, these software tools do not disclose the source code of their software nor how they prioritize student information for review and reporting, leaving parents, students, and even school administrators ignorant of what the privacy concerns even are before they can begin working for mitigation. But what is known is not good. A.I. automation tools, such as those used by Gaggle, are rife with broken promises about accuracy. They often have fundamental racial and gender biases. A consequence of using these tools to monitor students’ online content is that they will disproportionately affect people of color and marginalized groups.
If you have your own computer, and don’t want to use the school one, they would have you install the software on your own machine. It’s not clear why parents or students would consent to that. It was probably something like, you need to use MS Word or Google docs for your homework so you need to install this software to do so.
The use of Gaggle has resulted in the constant monitoring of students through their Gmail and Microsoft Office accounts, even when at home using personal devices. Gaggle even monitors in real time the content being written by students on Google Docs.
If it’s your only computer, you may not have a choice, and we’re talking about kids here, who are stuck with what their parents do or don’t buy them. I can easily see a teen in a lower-income household being stuck between a rock and a hard place here.
My son uses his school provided chronebook to do the shit he wouldn’t do on computers that I administer …. Their “threat” model varies wildly from ours.
at a recent job i handled backups and restores for the company and in the process of restoring requested files from laptops you see everything else they have saved too. seemed like pretty much everyone was using their work laptop as their one and only computer.
Tldr surveillance software on loaned school computers can be used by schools to find when students are using lgbtq keywords and potentially out them
It’s not just devices on loan from the schools.
If you have your own computer, and don’t want to use the school one, they would have you install the software on your own machine. It’s not clear why parents or students would consent to that. It was probably something like, you need to use MS Word or Google docs for your homework so you need to install this software to do so.
The level of surveillance is breathtaking.
That’s why you never use a school or work computer for personal use.
If it’s your only computer, you may not have a choice, and we’re talking about kids here, who are stuck with what their parents do or don’t buy them. I can easily see a teen in a lower-income household being stuck between a rock and a hard place here.
My son uses his school provided chronebook to do the shit he wouldn’t do on computers that I administer …. Their “threat” model varies wildly from ours.
at a recent job i handled backups and restores for the company and in the process of restoring requested files from laptops you see everything else they have saved too. seemed like pretty much everyone was using their work laptop as their one and only computer.
Porn. So much porn.
And, unfortunately, illegal stuff. Which we had to report.
Joke’s on them… I put normal porn on my work laptop so they think I’m into normal shit, then I watch the REA, fucked up porn on my personal PC.
Having a camera in their bedroom wasn’t enough, gotta go full on thought police.