Schools are surveilling kids to prevent gun violence or suicide. The lack of privacy comes at a cost
hechingerreport.org
In some cases, the technology has outed LGBTQ+ children and eroded trust between students and school staff

In some cases, the technology has outed LGBTQ+ children and eroded trust between students and school staff

  • SaltSong@startrek.websiteEnglish
    41·
    3 hours ago

    You know, I might be a little more ok with this, if it actually stopped school shootings.

    But I doubt it will.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 hours ago

      It absolutely won’t. What we will get is a bunch of kids profiled and harassed by an administration that sees “Suspected School Shooter!!! ALERT!! ALERT!!” popping up based on vague suspicions and poorly conceived correlations.

      The argument I saw one fascist use on a Facebook thread some years back was “If you were handed a bowl of M&Ms and you were told one of the brown ones was poisoned, how many would you leave in your bowl?” That’s the logic behind these algorithmic surveillance programs. Just grab known data points and draw a line through them. And the data points they lean into - age, race, gender, zip code - are what the system can grab rather than what might conceivably inform you of a person’s psychological state.

  • latenightnoir@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 hours ago

    Why fix the actual socio-economic and political issues which lead to school shootings when you can pull a Big Brother with barely functional AI models!

    I’m just hittin’em right outta the park, should’ve worked in Marketing!

  • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
    26·
    6 hours ago

    Schools are surveilling kids. (Full stop)

    I think it’s important to ask some basic questions to all affected school district superintendents.

    1. Why is the school resorting to surveilling my child?
    2. What data is collected on my child?
    3. Who do the schools share my child’s information with?
    4. How is my child’s data collected?
    5. When is my child’s data deleted?

    I’m sure you an come up with more.

  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    132·
    6 hours ago

    USA and trying anything other than gun control and access to mental health services, name a more iconic duo.

  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    4 hours ago

    Re the snippet: As a geeky gay guy coming to terms + coming out in the early 2000s, school faculty has always been void of trust, compassion, or safety. Hell, the majority of the motherfuckers I bumped into are vile pieces of bile and shit, that hate their lives and the poor decisions that brought them there, and will happily make an awful experience even worse, by any means possible, and do it with a smile on their face. 20+ years later, they just have more power to be even bigger shitstains.

    At least all the fuckers that I encountered will all be dead soon - I will have a lot of graves to dance on.