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For New York teacher Michael Flanagan, the pandemic was a crash course in new technology — rushing out laptops to stay-at-home students and shifting hectic school life online. Students are long back at school, but the technology has lived on, and with it has come a new generation of apps that...
Online student monitoring that rose during the pandemic sparks concerns about discrimination and surveillance of marginalised children.
"The stated purpose is to keep students safe, and here we have set up a system that is routinizing law enforcement access to this information and finding reasons for them to go into students' homes," Laird said. 'PREYED UPON' A report by federal lawmakers last year into four companies making student monitoring software found that none had made efforts to see if the programs disproportionately targeted marginalized students. "Students should not be surveilled on the same platforms they use for their schooling," Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts, one of the rep...