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

Chewi
Big Brother

Not a new problem

As a tech parent, I'm not going to give any immediate opinion over whether tracking in schools is good or bad, I need to think about it.

What's interesting is that this isn't even a new problem. Back in 2000, I was collared by the head of sixth form because they'd discovered a bunch of kids playing Doom in the library and they'd traced the original download back to me. I only shared it with a select few but then some idiot started handing it out to everyone and it quickly got out of control. Obviously I'd be able to cover my tracks a lot better now. ;-) I was told to apologise to the head of IT but he couldn't seem to hide his enjoyment of commandeering the PCs remotely, leaving the kids rather spooked. I suppose the fact that he was able to do that was also a concern in itself.

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