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Understanding how the largest technology companies collect, use, and share user information across the internet.
If a college has only one available slot and receives two applications from students who appear to be equally qualified on paper, should the college admit Student A, who has never shown any interest in attending that particular college? Or should it choose Student B, who has opened every email, thoroughly explored the college’s website, and contacted the admissions office […]
Gaggle monitors the work and communications of almost 5 million students in the US, and schools are paying big money for its services. Hundreds of company documents unveil a sprawling surveillance industrial complex that targets kids who can’t opt out.
Peer surveillance
The phrase “school-to-prison pipeline” has long been used to describe how schools respond to disciplinary problems with excessively stringent policies ...
UN’s rapporteur on extreme poverty says in devastating account big tech companies are being allowed to go unregulated in ‘human rights free-zones’
Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids | World news | The Guardian
Fueled by fears of school shootings, the market has grown rapidly for technologies that monitor students through official school emails and chats
Admissions.
More schools are using artificial intelligence services to monitor students for risks of violence or harm. That worries privacy advocates.
Software that inspects a website for evidence of surveillance -- cookies, behavior tracking, third-party crap, etc.
Tom Parsons and Amazon.
We test the hypothesis that increasing individuals’ perceived control over the release and access of private information—even information that allows them to be personally identified––will increase their willingness to disclose sensitive information. If their willingness to divulge increases sufficiently, such an increase in control can, paradoxically, end up leaving them more vulnerable. Our findings highlight how, if people respond in a sufficiently offsetting fashion, technologies designed to protect them can end up exacerbating the risks they face.
The Aristotle was an AI assistant that would sing lullabies to babies and teach them their ABCs
Amazon paid $1 billion for the security company. Our data analysis questions the claims that purchase was based on.
The practice, which the bureau says is vital to counterterrorism efforts, casts a much wider net than previously disclosed, newly released documents show.
In a new memoir and interview, the world’s most famous whistle-blower elucidates as never before why he stood up to mass surveillance—and his love for an internet that no longer exists.
Aggression sensors. Classroom barricades. Inside the mad rush to bulletproof the American school.
The way schools choose to redesign themselves to protect students from shootings will determine how schools look, and how well students can learn in them, for decades to come.