Reply to post: Damned if you do...

Privacy folk raise alarm over schools snooping on kids' online habits

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Damned if you do...

Parents will demand to know why the school isn't monitoring what kids are doing, the minute a kid sends an email or IM using school computers/networks stating he's going to shoot up the school weeks before he shoots up the school (a US only problem, admittedly)

In reality the schools are going to lose most of their ability to monitor students before long, as kids won't have any reason to use the school's wifi network - especially if they want to do something they don't want monitored / filtered. Prices for data keep dropping, and once 5G becomes widespread wifi in public places like schools will start to seem rather quaint.

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