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Schools are surveilling kids to prevent gun violence or suicide. The lack of privacy comes at a cost.
(hechingerreport.org)
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2025
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You know, I might be a little more ok with this, if it actually stopped school shootings.
But I doubt it will.
It absolutely won't. What we will get is a bunch of kids profiled and harassed by an administration that sees "Suspected School Shooter!!! ALERT!! ALERT!!" popping up based on vague suspicions and poorly conceived correlations.
The argument I saw one fascist use on a Facebook thread some years back was "If you were handed a bowl of M&Ms and you were told one of the brown ones was poisoned, how many would you leave in your bowl?" That's the logic behind these algorithmic surveillance programs. Just grab known data points and draw a line through them. And the data points they lean into - age, race, gender, zip code - are what the system can grab rather than what might conceivably inform you of a person's psychological state.
It seems that the data shows that most school shooters are white. I bet this is going to cause a lot of head scratches when the "black box" starts profiling whites.