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Why do you think it's ok to spy on your users on a school network?

• ChoHag 10y ago
  The students didn't buy the computers. I did. Edit: And before anyone starts with the "you shouldn't spy on your users" bullshit: Bollocks. If you want that, welcome to laa laa fantasy land where we all breathe sand. You will use computers or networks in which the operator is recording everything you do. You can either work within that assumption, or you can stick your fingers in your ears and pretend. And no, I don't use my employer's[+] computer for anything personally-sensitive and I don't install their shite on mine in order to access their network and when I do use their computer I expect they will watch everything I do even if they don't because I'm using their equipment. I do my real work on my own computer or I don't do my work. The employer is well within its rights to suck on it. [+] There is no reason why the same should not apply to schools, libraries or any other institution in which people are permitted to use items owned or services controlled by others.
• stephen_g 10y ago
  Just to note - I'm referring to schools as in K-12 kind of schools, in my country we don't call higher education 'school'. This is talking about providing internet for educational purposes to minors. I don't really think there is any argument to say that they should not be subject to automated filtering of the content that they can use on those computers. Even at work it's probably fair enough. An employer is well within their rights to filter the internet they provide - if you want to do private personal stuff, bring your own laptop and use an LTE dongle or tether it to your phone's internet...