Privacy Concerns Over Digital Monitoring

(from the 74 Million and EdSurge) A new expose of the student digital surveillance application Gaggle suggests that its employees, who monitor students' digital content, are untrained and underpaid, making them ineffective at screening student posts for potential self harm and other serious issues. Former employees also report the company did not protect student data and prioritized speed over quality. 

Some schools are using a digital hall pass instead of the old fashioned paper-based kind, which may help prevent social-media inspired school vandalism or planned meet-ups with friends during class hours. Privacy experts, however, warn that the monitoring may create an oppressive environment. Some parents have protested use of the digital hall pass. 

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