Social media monitoring by schools
As if US citizens aren’t already over-controlled by Internet companies, advertisers, phone companies, employers, authorities, cable companies, and oh yeah, those smart meters, it seems they’re affecting our kids, too. Kids are being introduced to social media surveillance and they don’t seem to understand the problem, which makes sense, and by the time they grow up, they’ll never have lived in a period of time where they didn’t know everything they were doing.
In walks 1984, Gatica, Minority Report and Vannevar Bush’s concept of “record a life” or life-log (read about Bell Labs and its concept). In the near future, not only will you have to worry about your smartphone spying on you, his car will too, every device you own to simplify his life will reveal his every move. Your life is hereby recorded, deal with her? Now about our children, some say they shouldn’t expect privacy, and since they’ve never met it, why should they care? Well that’s it, not only do they not care, they’re getting old enough to vote.
Now, there was an interesting privacy issue that caught my attention, yes, another one, an article titled; “California School District Hires Company to Monitor Student Social Media,” by Michael Martinez, posted on CNN Sept. 15, 2013. The school is doing this to prevent bullying, but I imagine in the future will be used to see who posts during school hours to catch kids doing that, or even who logs in during school hours, from there it will be a preconditioned reality of the next generation that “the authorities” have a right to look at their social networks, and they are at all times.
Judging by the movements of law enforcement, the FBI, the NSA, that’s already happening, your privacy is gone, how does that make you feel? Anyway, just think now in the case that you are innocent but suspect a crime, all that surveillance is proof that you didn’t do it. But if you have a tendency to misbehave, those social media posts can condemn you, be used against you, or, like I said, in some rare cases, be used to prove you weren’t there and didn’t do it.
Some parents say they like the idea of the school monitoring their children, why? Well, they don’t either, which means they’re handing over some of their parenting responsibilities to the state (so to speak, really just school for now), but this is problematic because we already have a problem with raising our children. country. But that my friends is for another topic and article. Until then, consider all this and think about it.