As students return to in-person classes, monitoring software installed for remote tracking purposes is largely becoming a concrete fixture, with many schools planning to keep spying software on student computers. A new report from the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) reveals that 89 percent of teachers surveyed work at schools where such monitoring software is still being used this year.
The software being used by schools across the U.S. varies greatly in its scope, but much of it documents more than just rule-breaking. In fact, many schools are even using this software to report infractions to local law enforcement — 44 percent of teachers reported that at least one student at their school had been contacted by the police based on the software’s logs.
