[Edling] A boy wrote about his suicide attempt. He didn’t realize his school’s Gaggle software was watching

[Francis M. Hult via Edling]

The Guardian

A boy wrote about his suicide attempt. He didn’t realize his school’s
Gaggle software was watching

Logsdon-Wallace, a transgender eighth-grader, has since “graduated” from
weekly therapy sessions and is doing better, but that didn’t stop school
officials from springing into action after he wrote about his mental
health. In a school assignment last month, he reflected on his suicide
attempt and how the anthem by the band Ramshackle Glory helped him cope –
intimate details that wound up in the hands of district security.

The classroom assignment was one of thousands of Minneapolis student
communications that got flagged by Gaggle, a digital surveillance company
that saw rapid growth after the pandemic forced schools into remote
learning. In an earlier investigation, the non-profit website The 74
analyzed nearly 1,300 public records from Minneapolis Public Schools to
expose how Gaggle subjects students to relentless, round-the-clock digital
surveillance, raising significant privacy concerns for more than 5 million
young people across the country who are monitored by the company’s
algorithm and human content moderators.

Full text:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/oct/12/school-surveillance-dragnet-suicide-attempt-healing
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