• gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com
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    4 months ago

    I work IT in schools. There is limited surveillance tools on college owned devices. Mainly logging of web traffic. Screens can be viewed when on campus network, not reachable off campus.

    No one in our department has time to waste looking at web history or screens. Teachers don’t bother to use it much either. We only look at it when directed by college executive or when I go in there at the end of term to clear the alerts.

    I’d imagine most other schools are similar, no one gives a shit what kids are doing on their devices

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      4 months ago

      So if no one gives a shit anyway you don’t need the surveillance capabilities anyway, right?

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        4 months ago

        a private school needs to give the appearance that they do, or at least have this capability when someone asks. On the ground, its barely used

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      4 months ago

      no one gives a shit what kids are doing on their devices

      Except Joe. And people like Joe. Whose surveillance of kids is now not only easier, but sanctioned.

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        4 months ago

        Exactly. It’s like a tacit admission that the only reason to have this stuff is for people like Joe.

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          4 months ago

          kids looking at porn on their school laptops is why the tools exist, not for pedos. ‘Joe’ is 0.001% of people, not the majority!

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            4 months ago

            That’s a number you just made up.

            Either way, use a blacklist then. If you really care about what sites they access, use a whitelist.

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              4 months ago

              use a blacklist then

              They do.

              That’s a number you just made up.

              you’re purposefully ignoring my point

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              4 months ago

              my highschool has 1,500 kids and 2 IT guys. We have over 100 broken laptops rn. They’re overworked minimum wage workers like everyone else working at public schools. They don’t even look at what kids do. I’ve seen only 1 story in the 4 years I’ve been in HS where someone actually got in trouble for messing with stuff on the computer and it was because they were trying to brute force a network password they didn’t have access to.