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The ones where kids chat about or search for non-school-related, very delicate and private topics, with their teacher digitally looking over their shoulder (to which the stalking software you implied they use would have alerted the students - or so the brochure claims).

It's possible the kids don't care about the spying, and keep discussing/searching for those topics even when the "You are being monitored" notification pops up. But I don't find that likely. Nor would the teachers describe it as "stalking" if that information was shared willingly.

Maybe by suddenly turning on screen recording, teachers were able to catch snapshots of chats and searches before the students could close those windows? But that is still a gross violation of privacy, and definitely not "no different from before".



Those are done by looking at their screens. The teachers are likely notified if anyone is not looking at their Zoom window and then just go over and see what they're doing. Searching for topics that happen to cross your mind is hard to resist, and the students likely don't care if the teachers know they are searching about LGBT rights or clicking on the Google Doodle. Why would they?




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