Students are some of the most surveilled people in the U.S. Now, artificial intelligence is being used to determine whether their behavior online is an indicator of a threat to themselves and others--and reporting them to their school.
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Yet, AI-driven student surveillance software flags a high percentage of false positives, begging the question whether the benefits outweigh violating students’ privacy.
As Hina Talib, associate professor at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in New York, said, “Privacy is a developmental milestone for teens.”
School surveillance eliminates the only space where kids from lower-income families can communicate privately online. “The school Chromebook is the only device some kids have, and the school Wi-Fi is the only internet connection,” says EFF attorney Sophia Cope.
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