School surveillance of students via laptops may do more harm than good

Re:School surveillance of students via laptops may do more h... by WarOnPrivacy on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @10:50AM (#29163310)

Dad of 5 here. Monitoring of equip can be reasonable. Request the equip be returned periodically for reset & restore.

Monitoring minors - on school property - beyond temporary measures that are strictly necessary to address recurring, meaningfully disruptive issues is not okay.

Monitoring of minors off school property is a hard no, by strong default.

This is where we start.

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Re:School surveillance of students via laptops may do more h... by sjg007 on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @12:52PM (#29164900)

I think schools would say that distance learning during school hours falls is reasonable.

Anyone know if you sign into your kids school account on a personal chromebook if that is monitored? This is only for gmail, meet etc.. I imagine the search queries are logged if they use the school account. The login account for the chromebook itself is not a school one.

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Re:School surveillance of students via laptops may do more h... by James-Livesey on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @01:57PM (#29165832)

Chromebooks must be enrolled under Chrome Education in order to be recognised as 'school property' and therefore become controlled and monitored by schools. Signing in with a school account will not enable these extra features.

However, signing into Chrome on any computer (Chromebook or not) will send search results into the Google Account's search history, which, if the Google Account is a school one, is monitorable by IT to see search history and browsing history etc.

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