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...

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…

  • exohuman@fedi196.gay
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    1 year ago

    @LollerCorleone it’s a shame things are so bad that students are being monitored for using LGBTQ terms. Good on those companies for seeing the current situation as negative and doing something about it.