Re:Schools Are Spending Millions on High-Tech Surveillance o...
by gruez on Saturday March 17, 2018 @05:53PM
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>Today I learned about Social Sentinel[0], since both right-twitter and left-twitter are condemning it today.
Why? Just skimming the page, it seems to be monitoring public social media posts for threats. Am I missing something? It's not like they're forcing students to grant access to their social media accounts so they can be monitored.
Re:Schools Are Spending Millions on High-Tech Surveillance o...
by psyc on Saturday March 17, 2018 @07:52PM
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Because itβs a misguided idea, more likely to result in false-positive hassles, chilling effects, and general paranoia, than to actually prevent crimes.
Why? Just skimming the page, it seems to be monitoring public social media posts for threats. Am I missing something? It's not like they're forcing students to grant access to their social media accounts so they can be monitored.