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adison verlice @[email protected] · 2025-10-04 · 02:15 UTC

@kkarhan also, the problem is that contentkeeper #cloud, #goguardian, #securely and all of these others are third parties. that means if they get breeched, guess what? student data gon. this absolutely cannot happen because schools have to follow ferpa and sign data processing agreements with the districts in question. so they not only violate ferpa, but also that DPA they signed

#cloud #goguardian #securely

IT News @[email protected] · 2024-12-09 · 10:05 UTC

The Brave New World of A.I.-Powered Self-Harm Alerts - New technology alerts schools when students type words related to suicide. But do the tim... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/health/suicide-monitoring-software-schools.html #suicidesandsuicideattempts #teachersandschoolemployees #mentalhealthanddisorders #computersandtheinternet #fairfieldcounty(conn) #childrenandchildhood #education(secondary) #your-feed-healthcare #your-feed-science #education(k-12) #laptopcomputers #goguardian

#goguardian #laptopcomputers #your #education #childrenandchildhood #fairfieldcounty

Andrew 🌻 Brandt 🐇 @[email protected] · 2023-12-12 · 23:10 UTC

Well I didn't win my election, but my interest in #SchoolBoard policy is not going away.

Tonight, immediately after the new board members are sworn in, I will be presenting a public comment to #BVSD about their use of #GoGuardian, a technology that presents itself as a monitoring tool to ensure that kids visit age- and developmentally-appropriate websites on their school-issued laptops.

In October, the #EFF published a report about the privacy-invading and false-positive-prone tool. https://redflagmachine.com/research/

The report highlights key problems about the software misidentifying benign websites with run-of-the-mill, unharmful content as potentially harmful or containing explicit content. Poetry by the Bronte sisters, the text of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, and even the text of Romeo and Juliet set off red flags. So did words in the Texas driver’s handbook, and health information websites. These false positive warnings are touted by GoGuardian not as a bug but as a desirable feature of the product.

My concern here is that routine use of GoGuardian sends two very damaging messages to students: It normalizes routine surveillance, and it tells students that they cannot be trusted to use their computers responsibly.

I will be giving public comment to the new board asking them to direct school administrators to investigate the district's contract with GoGuardian, and to seek out a less invasive, more accurate method of protecting children who use computers.

If you wish, you can watch the board proceedings on their youtube livestream, starting at 6pm MST (UTC-7). The link is https://www.youtube.com/@bouldervalleyschooldistric5781/streams

#Boulder #COPolitics #EdTech

#schoolboard #bvsd #goguardian #eff #boulder #copolitics

Cory Doctorow @[email protected] · 2023-11-06 · 16:38 UTC

CW: Long thread/3

Hey look at this

* #BootsRiley: “The Only Answer Is Organizing on the Job” https://jacobin.com/2023/11/boots-riley-hollywood-gaza-class-struggle-wga-art/

* How #GoGuardian Invades #StudentPrivacy https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/how-goguardian-invades-student-privacy

* Surveillance Wages: A Taxonomy https://lpeproject.org/blog/surveillance-wages-a-taxonomy/

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#bootsriley #goguardian #studentprivacy

PrivacyDigest @[email protected] · 2023-06-23 · 00:27 UTC

Student #Monitoring Tools Should Not Flag #LGBTQ+ Keywords

One of the more dangerous features of #student monitoring tools like #GoGuardian, #Gaggle, and Bark is their “flagging” functionality.
#privacy #surveillance

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/06/student-monitoring-tools-should-not-flag-lgbtq-keywords

#surveillance #privacy #gaggle #goguardian #student #lgbtq