OKLAHOMA · GAGGLE · CHILLING EFFECT
A student described changing what she searched because she knew the school device was being monitored.
School-device monitoring → self-censorship → reduced willingness to ask private questions
A joint Associated Press and Seattle Times investigation examined school monitoring products including Gaggle, which scans activity on school accounts and devices for content associated with self-harm, violence, bullying and other risks. Oklahoma student Zoe Reiland said that after learning about the monitoring, she stopped using her school Chromebook for private questions, including questions about menstruation.
Her father told reporters he had not realized the district was monitoring his children and said the district would not let his daughter substitute a personal laptop for the school device.
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