If these technologies weren’t already required, a bill from Sen. A marketing video posted to Gaggle’s YouTube page mentions the law explicitly in its pitch to school districts. While some have worked to limit these technologies, many districts believe a Clinton-era federal law, the Children’s Internet Protection Act, already requires them to adopt monitoring technologies. Breyer’s suggestion that teachers stand in place of parents while students are at school may grant even greater surveillance authority, Suski said. Emily Suski, a law professor at the University of South Carolina, said schools already have extensive surveillance authority under state laws designed to protect against cyberbullying. “When it comes to political or religious speech that occurs outside school or a school program or activity, the school will have a heavy burden to justify intervention.”īut students hoping the recent decision would limit schools’ authority to surveil may be disappointed.
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“rom the student speaker’s perspective, regulations of off-campus speech, when coupled with regulations of on-campus speech, include all the speech a student utters during the full 24-hour day,” Justice Stephen Breyer wrote. The court ruled in June that a Pennsylvania school district had violated the free-speech rights of a student when it punished her for a vulgar Snapchat message, but the justices declined to set a universal standard for what counts as “off-campus” speech. Supreme Court decision may shed new light on whether schools can take action against students for their off-campus speech. Aziz Huq, a law professor at the University of Chicago, said monitoring technologies are a serious concern, but current case law is unclear about whether their use constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment and whether students would be protected from such a search.Ī recent U.S. Legal scholars said it’s unclear at what point this type of monitoring may cross a legal line. In a blog post, Margolis wrote that he came up with the idea for Social Sentinel when he was the police chief at the University of Vermont, after an officer told him about a planned protest at the university’s executive offices, and recent crimes, which were posted on Facebook. Documents obtained by NBC show that UNC paid Social Sentinel $73,500 in 2016 for a three-year contract for the service. A year later, NBC News found that UNC-Chapel Hill had used a geofence, a virtual boundary for a geographic area, to scan the accounts of activists who were protesting a Confederate statue on campus. A report from Criminal Legal News in 2018 found that East Carolina University used Social Sentinel to identify a non-student activist who was critical of the university’s chancellor. News reports also show some schools have used the technology to monitor protesters. Austin State University police detective that the service was used not only to prevent suicides and shootings but also for “Forestalling potentially volatile protests/demonstrations.” In an email, a Social Sentinel sales director told a Stephen F. The service also looks at whether the posters follow an official campus account, even if they never attended the school. That’s because the company’s system considers the location listed in a user’s social media profile to determine whether an alert should be issued, Buzzfeed News data provided to The News shows. Jolley said they track device locations so districts can keep track of their property and also to alert them in case students search for activity like suicide.Īlthough Social Sentinel’s tool is designed to detect threats on campuses, it also can inadvertently capture social media posts from people who are not students. In patent documents, Securly says its web filter can track every website a student visits and where the student was while visiting the site.
“We do not have a third-party analysis of our work, simply because of the significant privacy issues that would be raised if we were to export this sensitive data and information to an independent researcher for review and examination,” he said.
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