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How Schools Surveil Your Kids

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In schools across the country, tighter digital controls were put in place to keep kids on task during the pandemic. Are they here to stay?


Guests: Priya Anand, reporter at Bloomberg


Host: Lizzie O’Leary


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0:00.0

Hey guys, this is Glacian and Dragon here, and today Ria are going to be talking about Go Guardian.

0:09.8

That, as you just heard, is a YouTuber who goes by the name of Glacian Dragon.

0:14.7

So what is Go Guardian, you may ask? Well, if you guys don't know what Go Guardian is, you're in luck.

0:22.1

Go Guardian is a software company that makes essentially spyware, software that helps teachers and

0:27.8

schools block and monitor on a really granular level what kids are doing online.

0:33.8

And seemingly in response, kids have made this whole YouTube genre, ranting about the software.

0:39.3

My school uses GoGuardine and it's pretty bad.

0:42.3

They can see what you're doing on your screen.

0:45.3

There's a tab where you can see the timeline and another tab where you can see every student in your class screen.

0:51.3

And I just think that this feature just gives the teachers too much power.

0:55.0

Or trying to find ways to get around it.

0:58.0

Okay, guys.

0:59.0

So today we will be teaching you about how to disable Go Guardian.

1:05.0

I played these videos for Priya On End.

1:09.0

Priya is a tech reporter for Bloomberg, and she wrote a big story about GoGuardian.

1:14.4

And she was not surprised.

1:16.4

I have read a lot of student newspaper articles with kids saying, like, hey, with GoGuardian, we feel like we have no space to ourselves.

1:22.5

Our whole lives are online right now.

1:24.4

And I have seen, actually, I went to a school in Pekin, Illinois to see how

1:29.1

Go Guardian worked. And one of the most commonly searched for YouTube videos was how to get around

1:35.2

Go Guardian. Because even though this technology might make sense to teachers for remote learning,

1:41.9

for students, having everything you do be watched and tracked and logged,

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