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I'm not sure how that's a surprise to anyone. Keep your personal stuff off hardware that doesn't belong to you.
They used the onboard cameras to take pictures of kids in their bedrooms.
That is a problem, but usage monitoring software should be expected.
Dude, don't normalise this bullshit. Wtf.
What bullshit, making sure kids use school property only for school?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School_District
And? I wasn't talking about remote webcam monitoring software.
it comes with the territory
Not by default, no. There were a handful of cases out of millions of devices.
Then keep it fucking at school.
It shouldn't be in homes. Its a constitutional violation. Schools are state sponsored and tax funded.
They shouldn't be legally allowed to record shit in a private home with out a warrant.
Then refusal to use it should also be expected, but they have zero accommodation for that.
Right, because it's only supposed to be used for school purposes.
The school's purposes don't include scanning my home network. Why do their devices do that?
I can't answer that with the limited information you've provided.
It doesn't need an answer because it was rhetorical. The devices do that because they are owned by Google, and the license they did not read or care about granted Google permission to do that and was foisted upon every family in the district without their consent or any means to opt out or alternatives.
It’s definitely a surprise to most students. Not really reasonable to expect people who have never been taught tech to understand tech.
It's actually a pretty important lesson for them to learn
No. Keep your hardware off of kids that don't belong to you.
now try explaining that to a kid. it'll maybe stick in high school.