Imagine your search terms, key-strokes, private chats and photographs are being monitored every time they are sent. Millions of students across the country don’t have to imagine this deep surveillance of their most private communications: it’s a reality that comes with their school districts’...
I work IT in schools. There is limited surveillance tools on college owned devices. Mainly logging of web traffic. Screens can be viewed when on campus network, not reachable off campus.
No one in our department has time to waste looking at web history or screens. Teachers don’t bother to use it much either. We only look at it when directed by college executive or when I go in there at the end of term to clear the alerts.
I’d imagine most other schools are similar, no one gives a shit what kids are doing on their devices
my highschool has 1,500 kids and 2 IT guys. We have over 100 broken laptops rn. They’re overworked minimum wage workers like everyone else working at public schools. They don’t even look at what kids do. I’ve seen only 1 story in the 4 years I’ve been in HS where someone actually got in trouble for messing with stuff on the computer and it was because they were trying to brute force a network password they didn’t have access to.
I work IT in schools. There is limited surveillance tools on college owned devices. Mainly logging of web traffic. Screens can be viewed when on campus network, not reachable off campus.
No one in our department has time to waste looking at web history or screens. Teachers don’t bother to use it much either. We only look at it when directed by college executive or when I go in there at the end of term to clear the alerts.
I’d imagine most other schools are similar, no one gives a shit what kids are doing on their devices
Except Joe. And people like Joe. Whose surveillance of kids is now not only easier, but sanctioned.
Exactly. It’s like a tacit admission that the only reason to have this stuff is for people like Joe.
Trust me bro, joe is a good guy!
He’s super busy! No time to abuse our completely abuseable system…
my highschool has 1,500 kids and 2 IT guys. We have over 100 broken laptops rn. They’re overworked minimum wage workers like everyone else working at public schools. They don’t even look at what kids do. I’ve seen only 1 story in the 4 years I’ve been in HS where someone actually got in trouble for messing with stuff on the computer and it was because they were trying to brute force a network password they didn’t have access to.
kids looking at porn on their school laptops is why the tools exist, not for pedos. ‘Joe’ is 0.001% of people, not the majority!
That’s a number you just made up.
Either way, use a blacklist then. If you really care about what sites they access, use a whitelist.
They do.
you’re purposefully ignoring my point
That’s what it looks like when it works well. There’s no way for parents to know if its a Joe situation or not.
It’s not like it hasn’t happened before. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/610k-settlement-in-school-webcam-spy-case/
So if no one gives a shit anyway you don’t need the surveillance capabilities anyway, right?
a private school needs to give the appearance that they do, or at least have this capability when someone asks. On the ground, its barely used