One of the more dangerous features of student monitoring tools like GoGuardian, Gaggle, and Bark is their “flagging” functionality. The tools can scan web pages, documents in students’ cloud drives, emails, video content, and more for keywords about topics like sex, drugs, and violence. They then…

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    1 year ago

    Not a fan of this type of surveillance on kids. Also, tiktok has probably already trained them on creative ways to bypass word filters

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      1 year ago

      are you ducking kidding me? kids have been learning how to get around this funky bull-shrimp for longer than the gosh darn internet has existed.