Education officials urged to tame student surveillance software
[PDF] sent to the department's Office for Civil Rights on Tuesday, the Center for Democracy & Technology and other groups urged officials to formulate rules to protect students from student monitoring software, which they claim is particularly harmful to LGBTQI+ students, students of color, and students with disabilities.
Moreover, the groups are concerned that discriminatory policies being advanced on a state level that target LGBTQI+ students – by requiring school's to disclose students' gender identity or sexual orientation and which seek to limit access to literature and other resources related to race and gender/sexual orientation – will be made easier through the availability of student monitoring mechanisms.
Schools employ surveillance software in an effort to comply with perceived legal obligations and to keep students safe, the report says. But that's not really how the software is used. Some 70 percent of teachers surveyed say surveillance systems are used for disciplinary action, compared to 47 percent who say the software is used for self-harm intervention, or 45 percent who report monitoring being used for preventing violence.
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