http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/2015-Oh,-The-Spying-Its-Not-Just-In-Pennsylvania.html
Houston WE have a problem, this mission needs be aborted
Dan Ackerman an administrator at Intermediate School 339, in the Bronx, and he appeared in a Frontline segment two weeks ago to demonstrate how they monitor their students' computer usage. The uncomfortable part of the segment, in which he accesses the webcams of various unknowing middle schoolers, starts at 4:36.
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"A lot of kids are just on it to check their hair, check their make-up: the girls... They don't even realize that we are watching. I always like to mess with them and take a picture."
Two different issues here folks.
First, in a classroom there is no expectation of privacy. Zip. Zero.
But watch that clip. Note that the students are clueless to the fact that the administrator is watching everything they do.
How come? The school didn't bother to tell the students that the administrators would be watching the kids through these things whenever and wherever and would be snapping their picture for their own amusement? In the classroom or not, that's damn creepy.
Now extrapolate this to the same machine being issued to your kid, coming into your home and being in their bedroom, and if you're not creeped out enough to start calling for people's heads, you're certifiable - or a pedophile.
If - and I repeat if - those computers once at your home "check in" with the school machine, common remote-console software would permit this sort of intrusion - at the whim and under the exclusive control of the school administration, and as said "they don't even realize that we are watching."
How much more "in your face" does it have to get before parents revolt?
