I've never been in the US and stories like this make me imagine it as a bizarre authoritarian dystopia. How are the parents not reacting to this? How is there

I've never been in the US and stories like this make me imagine it as a bizarre authoritarian dystopia. How are the parents not reacting to this? How is there no law protecting the privacy of workers and children? Why is this not in the front page of a major newspaper? Please do something about this. By the time those technologies trickle down to smaller countries there's very little we can do to counter the external pressure to implement similar "solutions".