Tldr surveillance software on loaned school computers can be used by schools to find when students are using lgbtq keywords and potentially out them
That’s why you never use a school or work computer for personal use.
at a recent job i handled backups and restores for the company and in the process of restoring requested files from laptops you see everything else they have saved too. seemed like pretty much everyone was using their work laptop as their one and only computer.
Porn. So much porn.
And, unfortunately, illegal stuff. Which we had to report.
Joke’s on them… I put normal porn on my work laptop so they think I’m into normal shit, then I watch the REA, fucked up porn on my personal PC.
If it’s your only computer, you may not have a choice, and we’re talking about kids here, who are stuck with what their parents do or don’t buy them. I can easily see a teen in a lower-income household being stuck between a rock and a hard place here.
My son uses his school provided chronebook to do the shit he wouldn’t do on computers that I administer …. Their “threat” model varies wildly from ours.
Having a camera in their bedroom wasn’t enough, gotta go full on thought police.
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OK…i dony have kids, but even if you ignore the anti gay/trans aspect of it, this is fucking creepy, right? Like this seems like an unacceptable level of intrusion into a child’s life. I find it staggering that this just kind of happened and it wasnt front and center news everywhere! Absolute clown shoes level of crazy.
Agree
When I was that age I was already “18” when online. I watched way too much explicit content back then. I think I could’ve been in therapy…
…OK?
It’s not remote learning that enabled this, it’s educational institution malware.
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Old news (2022) but still dystopian.
As soon as the kids are the school find this out I guarantee every single one of them will write queer or trans on the laptop, the system will get flooded and they will have to stop
This is so, so fucking stupid.
Am i really supposed such a jarring and complete lack of ceitical thinking ability to believe that this is an issue worth writing an article about?
To explain: of all the monumentally incompetent, illegal, mond-numbingly stupid, and agressively short-sighted things a trenager is inevitably going to type into a school laptop I’m supposed to believe that THIS, this is what is worth writing an article about?
I do not disagree with what the author is teying to say but holy fucking shit what a load of pandering, steaming shit this is.
Getting flagged for being trans is, like, one of a countless number of idiotic things a teenager could do with a school laptop with monitoring software installed that could potentially land them in hot water.
The dangers of normalizing surveillance amongst students are so fucking multitudinous that to highlight any one of them is fuckjng pointless when addressing the root of it covers ALL of them. Including the subject of this article.
