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I fought this with a suburban school system in Indiana and won. The spyware was installed on Chromebooks I bought. Before contacting the school, I monitored net
by indymike 5y ago
I fought this with a suburban school system in Indiana and won. The spyware was installed on Chromebooks I bought. Before contacting the school, I monitored network traffic for about 1 HR and found a an ad fraud click bot and logging being sent to India.
When I contacted the school my ask was they remove the spyware from my Chromebooks. The first answer was, no. I asked again via the superintendent, and got a call from their IT director. I shared with him what my traffic monitoring found and a few days later I get another no.
My last try was simple... I paid a lawyer to write a simple letter demanding to have the software removed or be shown the warrant giving the school the right to install surveillance software on my laptop. The next day I get a call from the districts lawyer who wanted me to confirm the software had been removed, and it had been.
- Root_Denied 5y agoThat's great for your situation - what about the rest of the people in your district? Did you reach out to other parents and make this problem known publicly, along with your solution, so that other parents could decide for themselves (individually or collectively) what their response should be? Seems like this would be a slam dunk of a local news piece for some newspaper/website.
- amatecha 5y agoYup, stuff like this should be on the local news. While most parents will go "ehhh I trust the government and if my kid is doing something bad I want to hear about it", the ones who actually care about their kids' rights will raise a huge stink and the district is more likely to not only be more upfront about this stuff but also probably make opting out easier.
- indymike 5y agoI shared what happened with other parents. Most did not care or even understand.