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Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School. (www.gadgetreview.com)

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Sixty minutes. That’s how long it took for a private Snapchat message to travel from Kristen Volpe’s phone to the FBI to the deputies standing in her elementary school hallway. On January 29, 2025, the 22-year-old student teacher at John L. Hensey Elementary in Washington, Illinois, vented to her boyfriend and two roommates — three people total — after a student closed her laptop mid-class and wiped her lesson plan. She referenced shooting the student or the school. She meant it as a frustrated joke. Snapchat’s algorithm didn’t get the humor.

No student reported her. No parent. No coworker. The flag was entirely automated. Snapchat’s policy permits voluntary emergency disclosures to law enforcement — no warrant required — when the platform determines imminent harm exists. The algorithm makes that initial call. Think of it like your Ring doorbell deciding to call 911 on its own, except the doorbell is reading your text messages.

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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 252 points 3 days ago (55 children)

The amount of people in this thread that seem to think invasion of privacy is cool to police thought crime is honestly shocking. The subject and subject matter are completely irrelevant.

In addition, teachers are fucking people and venting and joking in private with close friends is sacrosanct.

[–] theherk@lemmy.world 92 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My guess is most are very young. Goes to show our civil liberties worldwide, especially since 9/11, have eroded tremendously. Young people have grown up in a world where privacy is a joke and government spying is a foregone conclusion.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I work mostly with people older than myself. The younger ones are shocked by everyone's lackadaisical privacy practices. The older ones all say, "oh well, it's everywhere and I have nothing to hide. It's not like you can get away from it."

[–] dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don't know a single young person who actually cares about Internet privacy. The vast majority of them are on social media all the time.

[–] Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm a young people that's a privacy and free speech extremist. Thus, you're refused.

[–] dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 1 points 1 day ago

I now know 1, so that is true.

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I realized this because we have a younger engineer who didn’t even have an Adblock running on their browser. When I asked them about it, they just told me that they grew up seeing ads so it doesn’t matter to them 🤯

[–] dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 1 points 11 hours ago

Damn, it really sucks how normalized internet brainrot is becoming.

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