These systems wind up getting used just like CCTVs. They get retroactively employed whenever and however the powers that be want them to. Sometimes that's figuring out what happened after some incident. Usually it's just petty stuff.
And usually it's just straight up spying on unwilling and unwitting kids who don't realize they're being spied on and now the principal is watching kids through laptop webcams in their own bedrooms.
They'll start using surveillance technology in schools so that easily impressionable kids will be used to it by the time they're adults - and by the time anybody speaks up it'll be used in the corporate environment, then society as a whole.
It's like how Apple pushed for their Apple computers to be in schools in the 80s (90s?), and how Google pushes Chromebooks onto educators.
>They'll start using surveillance technology in schools
This has been going on since at least the 90s. Most schools put CCTV in and watch everything that is done on the property, and administrators have very little limits of access controls in place to make sure nobody is creepily watching little timmy all the time.
My partner was in a class at Berkeley where different teams devised ML projects and implemented them. One of the team's idea was to "combat obesity" by installing cameras in elementary schools to monitor the children's estimated weight and notify their parents if it seemed like the kid was getting fatter. The only thing more disturbing was that they called a bunch of elementary schools and got very enthusiastic responses from the schools - their presentation included a quote like "where have you been all this time?" from a school principal.
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"Exactly. What could a 13-year-old boy be doing in the bathroom for that long unless it's something suspicious?"
"...you poor, sheltered soul."
...or possibly speed things up, I don't kink shame.
or do they want to know who goes to the bathroom at the same time?
These systems wind up getting used just like CCTVs. They get retroactively employed whenever and however the powers that be want them to. Sometimes that's figuring out what happened after some incident. Usually it's just petty stuff.
It's like how Apple pushed for their Apple computers to be in schools in the 80s (90s?), and how Google pushes Chromebooks onto educators.
I agree wholeheartedly though that schools are used as a way to normalize authoritarian tech or policies.
This has been going on since at least the 90s. Most schools put CCTV in and watch everything that is done on the property, and administrators have very little limits of access controls in place to make sure nobody is creepily watching little timmy all the time.
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
Now, it is watching everything all the time, and recording everything all the time.