Schools are becoming worse than prisons. It's deeply disturbing.
theguardian.com/world/2019/oct…
theguardian.com/world/2019/oct…
"Company Bark was offering schools free, automated, 24-hour-a-day surveillance of what students were writing in their school emails, shared documents and chat messages, and sending alerts to school officials any time the monitoring technology flagged concerning phrases."
"Free"
"Free"
"Tech companies are also working with schools to monitor students’ web searches and internet usage, and, in some cases, to track what they are writing on public social media accounts."
Kids who grow up accustomed to this will be adults who won't care if government does the same.
Kids who grow up accustomed to this will be adults who won't care if government does the same.
"Some proponents of school monitoring say the technology is part of educating today’s students in how to be good “digital citizens”, and that monitoring in school helps train students for constant surveillance after they graduate."
Total madness.
Total madness.
Everyone with kids should read this, and then figure out what sort of surveillance is being used at your kids' school.
theguardian.com/world/2019/oct…
theguardian.com/world/2019/oct…
