US has now officially gone mad.
Aspiring terrorists are in every Iowa school, surveillance companies warn
https://www.thegazette.com/subject/...nitoring-surveillance-gaggle-securly-20200302
https://features.propublica.org/agg...nology-schools-are-using-to-monitor-students/
https://web.archive.org/web/2020030...2/06/business/facial-recognition-schools.html
In the land of the surveilled, where every five year old learns that this is the social norm, without recourse or opt out. Because its cheap tech from china. Something something school shootings.
See how easy that was? To prevent school shootings the US didnt have to change gun law! No - it just had to surveil every one of their children in school - problem solved! Everyone feels safe again.
(My local paper did a summery on the available stories in that field today, most news items are from february.)
Aspiring terrorists are in every Iowa school, surveillance companies warn
https://www.thegazette.com/subject/...nitoring-surveillance-gaggle-securly-20200302
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/22/school-student-surveillance-bark-gaggleFor Adam Jasinski, a technology director for a school district outside of St Louis, Missouri, monitoring student emails used to be a time-consuming job. Jasinski used to do keyword searches of the official school email accounts for the district’s 2,600 students, looking for words like “suicide” or “marijuana”. Then he would have to read through every message that included one of the words. The process would occasionally catch some concerning behavior, but “it was cumbersome”, Jasinski recalled.
Last year Jasinski heard about a new option: following the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, the technology 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.
The automated alerts were a game-changer, said Jason Buck, the principal of the Missouri district’s middle school. One Friday evening last fall, Buck was watching television at home when Bark alerted him that one of his students had just written an email to another student talking about self-harm. The principal immediately called the first student’s mother: “Is the student with you?” he asked. “Are they safe?”
Before his school used Bark, the principal said, school officials would not know about cyberbullying or a student talking about hurting themselves unless one of their friends decided to tell an adult about it. Now, he said, “Bark has taken that piece out of it. The other student doesn’t have to feel like they’re betraying or tattling or anything like that.”
Stress levels in voice recordings (?) are to be used for precrime to prevent school shootings, only slight issue - it doesnt work, but schools and hospitals are buying it anyways...Aggression Detectors: The Unproven, Invasive Surveillance Technology Schools Are Using to Monitor Students
https://features.propublica.org/agg...nology-schools-are-using-to-monitor-students/
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/02/schools-are-pushing-boundaries-surveillance-technologiesSchools are operating as testbeds for mass surveillance with no evidence, and no way to opt out
https://web.archive.org/web/2020030...2/06/business/facial-recognition-schools.html
In the land of the surveilled, where every five year old learns that this is the social norm, without recourse or opt out. Because its cheap tech from china. Something something school shootings.
See how easy that was? To prevent school shootings the US didnt have to change gun law! No - it just had to surveil every one of their children in school - problem solved! Everyone feels safe again.
(My local paper did a summery on the available stories in that field today, most news items are from february.)
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