Surveillance in school: Invasive technology, junk science

We speak with Albert Fox Cahn and Sarah Roth of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, or S.T.O.P., about the increasing use of surveillance technology to track students. Claiming their technology can predict who will be a threat to themselves or the school, companies market programs that report to school officials on students’ keystrokes, words, and behaviors. School officials can provide it to law enforcement or parents. Overview 00:00-00:41 Intros00:41-02:27 Who is surveilling K-12 students and why?02:27-05:49 Who is collecting the data, where it goes, how it impacts students?05:49-08:03 Implications of students self-identifying as queer in Florida and elsewhere08:03-10:08 How are risk factors determined?10:08-12:37 Surveillance technology and School Resource Officers (SROs)12:37-14:18 Are parents aware of their students’ surveillance?14:18-16:28 Legal challenges16:28-18:26 Using FOIA/FOIL to get information about surveillance18:26-21:16 Facial recognition21:16-21:40 Gaggle as enhancement to SRO in Minneapolis21:40-23:51 Biases23:51-24:45 Federal promotion of surveillance24:45-27:39 Adoption of technology in classrooms and for measuring “productivity”27:39- Outro Transcript Click here to see the full transcription of this episode.  References Surveillance Technology Oversight Project S.T.O.P. website Soundtrack by Poddington Be...

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