The increasing use of student surveillance and intrusion of school districts into students’ extra-curricular conduct should alarm us all. Whether it is a district surveilling students in their bedrooms via webcam, conducting random drug or locker searches, strip-searching students, lowering the standard for searching students to “reasonable suspicion” from “probable cause,” disciplining students for conduct outside of school hours, searching their cellphones and text messages, or allegedly forcing them to undergo pregnancy testing, student privacy is under increasing threat.
U.S. schools: grooming students for a surveillance state | Privacy News - PogoWasRight.org
Very, very glad my high school days are long behind me…
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Indeed! It’s Foucaultian in discretely numerable ways! Beside the obvious, it’s as if they see more information as the key to control. Like, if we just had total info we’d have total control over subjects. But that’s not true. It’s an epistemological garbageheap.
