Gaggle Knows Everything About Teens And Kids In School

guest · Nov 2, 2019

Gaggle Knows Everything About Teens And Kids In School
Gaggle monitors the work and communications of almost 5 million students in the US, and schools are paying big money for its services
November 1, 2019
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...ggle-school-surveillance-technology-education

For the 1,300 students of Santa Fe High School, participating in school life means producing a digital trail — homework assignments, essays, emails, pictures, creative writing, songs they've written, and chats with friends and classmates.
All of it is monitored by student surveillance service Gaggle, which promises to keep Santa Fe High School kids free from harm.

Using a combination of in-house artificial intelligence and human content moderators paid about $10 an hour, Gaggle polices schools for suspicious or harmful content and images, which it says can help prevent gun violence and student suicides. It plugs into two of the biggest software suites around, Google’s G Suite and Microsoft 365, and tracks everything, including notifications that may float in from Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram accounts linked to a school email address.

A college student whose middle school used Gaggle told BuzzFeed News that the tool taught them that they would always be watched.
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Parents and caregivers have always monitored their kids.
But student surveillance services like Gaggle raise questions about how much monitoring is too much, and what rights minors have to control the ways that they’re watched by adults.
“Questionable content”
Gaggle is one of the biggest players in today’s new economy of student surveillance, in which student work and behavior are scrutinized for indicators of violence or a mental health crisis, and profanity and sexuality are policed.

According to Gaggle’s company wiki, student emails are scanned in real time, and those that violate the rules are blocked from their intended recipients. Meanwhile, documents and files are moderated “after the fact.”
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Reality · Nov 3, 2019

Parents are the ones who should be keeping an eye on their kids as they are still vulnerable and learning. But this obnoxious behavior is a clear breach of of kids' privacy and kids shouldn't face surveillance in this manner.

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