Is your school spying on your child online? | Chad Marlow
Companies like Gaggle, GoGuardian, Securly, and Navigate360 spy on US children’s private texts, emails and social media posts When it premiered last month, the Amazon docuseries Spy High reminded Americans how, in 2009, Pennsylvania’s Lower Merion school district remotely activated its school-issued laptop webcams to capture 56,000 pictures of students outside of school, including in their bedrooms. There are few places where the use of student surveillance technology feels more threatening than in the room where children undress, sleep and engage in other private conduct, and that is why the intrusions featured in Spy High are so disturbing.Fortunately, in the 16 years since Lower Merion’s misconduct was revealed, we have not seen another webcam-based privacy violation of a similar scale. But as the parent of two public school students, I take little comfort in that achievement, because I know there is another, ultra-private place that schools are intruding upon virtually every minute of every day: our children’s minds. Continue reading...
Companies like Gaggle, GoGuardian, Securly, and Navigate360 spy on US children’s private texts, emails and social media posts
When it premiered last month, the Amazon docuseries Spy High reminded Americans how, in 2009, Pennsylvania’s Lower Merion school district remotely activated its school-issued laptop webcams to capture 56,000 pictures of students outside of school, including in their bedrooms. There are few places where the use of student surveillance technology feels more threatening than in the room where children undress, sleep and engage in other private conduct, and that is why the intrusions featured in Spy High are so disturbing.
Fortunately, in the 16 years since Lower Merion’s misconduct was revealed, we have not seen another webcam-based privacy violation of a similar scale. But as the parent of two public school students, I take little comfort in that achievement, because I know there is another, ultra-private place that schools are intruding upon virtually every minute of every day: our children’s minds. Continue reading...
