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> It’s dragnet surveillance: there are inevitably false positives ex picked up. False positives would only be a problem depending on how exactly the evidence i
by TheFreim 3y ago
> It’s dragnet surveillance: there are inevitably false positives ex picked up.
False positives would only be a problem depending on how exactly the evidence is used. In the first example in the article Iglesias says she learned about the sensors in her own school when an admin came to the restroom after it was triggered. Despite it being triggered by actual vaping, she notes that the admin "ultimately let all the students go" which seems to indicate that, at that school, it wasn't being used blindly to convict students.
Could this system be abused or over relied upon? Definitely, but it doesn't seem that false positives are an issue if the school administration has appropriate standards of evidence.