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Student Monitoring Tools Should Not Flag LGBTQ+ Keywords (www.eff.org)

submitted 1 year ago by LollerCorleone@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social

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One of the more dangerous features of student monitoring tools like GoGuardian, Gaggle, and Bark is their “flagging” functionality. The tools can scan web pages, documents in students’ cloud drives, emails, video content, and more for keywords about topics like sex, drugs, and violence. They then...

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[–] Zebrazilla@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We call on all student monitoring tools to remove LGBTQ+ terms from their blocking and flagging lists to ensure that young people’s privacy isn't violated

Removing certain keywords is hardly enough to ensure their privacy. This type of surveillance has no business being in a school to begin with. As a kid I found domain blocking to be bad, more of a nuisance really due to the ease of getting around it, but this stuff is downright dystopic.