{"id":58514,"date":"2024-07-30T07:14:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T12:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=58514"},"modified":"2024-07-30T07:14:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T12:14:33","slug":"kansas-reflector-spyware-turned-this-kansas-high-school-into-a-red-zone-of-dystopian-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=58514","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Reflector: Spyware turned this Kansas high school into a \u2018red zone\u2019 of dystopian surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kansas High School uses AI to analyze students’ “homework assignment, email, photo, and chat on your school-supplied device is being monitored by artificial intelligence for indicators of drug and alcohol use, anti-social behavior, and suicidal inclinations.” Kansas Reflector: Spyware turned this Kansas high school into a \u2018red zone\u2019 of dystopian surveillance<\/a> by Max McCoy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

But high school today? It makes my blood run cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wouldn\u2019t last 10 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sartre was wrong. Hell used to be other people. Now it\u2019s high school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m convinced of this because I\u2019ve been following the news coverage of Lawrence High School. Just imagine you\u2019re a student at Lawrence High (go Chesty the Lion!) and every homework assignment, email, photo, and chat on your school-supplied device is being monitored by artificial intelligence for indicators of drug and alcohol use, anti-social behavior, and suicidal inclinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s been the reality since last November, when the district began a $162,000 contract with Gaggle, a Dallas-based student safety technology company to provide around-the-clock surveillance. If a word or an image triggers an alert in the AI software, the result could range from the student being sent to an administrator to being referred to online counseling to getting a visit from local police.
. . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AI surveillance flags \u201cconcerning content\u201d on school-issued devices and software accounts for review and blocks potentially harmful content, according to its website. Expert human review, it says, helps district officials to take action before students harm themselves or others, and in severe situations it alerts \u201cdistrict-appointed\u201d contacts, even after hours or on weekends. If no district representative is available, the police might be summoned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Gaggle is selling is an antidote for fear \u2014 for administrators, for parents, for students \u2014 in exchange for civil liberties. It\u2019s difficult to argue with 5,790 lives saved, if you take it at face value, but I have my doubts about that number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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