{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Cybertraps Podcast","title":"Should Schools Install Cameras in Classrooms Cybertraps 106","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2640,"description":" Show Notes\n News Item:\n Florida representative from Naples, FL files HB 1055, which would require schools to consider and vote on a plan to install cameras at the front of every classroom\nAny installed system would have the ability to record audio and video throughout the classroom, except any area in which children might change clothing.\nSchools would be required to maintain video archives for at least three months, after which the video could be destroyed unless a request to review was made, or other legal proceeding.\nSchools would required to blur the faces of any children not part of an \"incident\" under investigation.\nVideo may not be used to evaluate teachers\nNo provision for funding\n Motivations for Camera Proposals\n Student Safety\nTeacher Safety\nParental Surveillance of Teaching Methods and Curricula\nTeacher Evaluations\n Potential Downsides\n Financial and Logistical\n Installation of Surveillance Systems Can Be Expensive\nVideo Storage Requirements Can Be Large\n Legal\n New duty of care for schools\n Was video system properly installed?\nWas video properly archived?\nIf system was not running, why not?\n Possible evidence in myriad proceedings\n Further temptation for obstruction of justice and spoliation\n Privacy\n Once Data Has Been Collected, It Is Very Difficult to Limit Its Use and Misuse\nWe Should Always Be Reluctant to Collect Data in the First Place\nWill video be used to evaluate which students are friends or dislike each other?\nWill cameras be powerful enough to read papers, notes, passwords being entered into devices, etc.\nRisk of voyeuristic misuse\n Mission Creep\n Use of video to evaluate teachers\nWill Students Be Graded on Attentiveness?\nAnti-cheating tool?\n Broader social issues\n Trust in teachers and the educational system\nOver-empowering small but highly vocal groups within the community\nFurthering the culture of surveillance\nTraining children to accept surveillance as a constant fact of life (corporatist approach)\n Has Dystopia Already Arrived?...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/-npbjlTwEpH5Ybi_ySNRhS-EfNqaI7Ep1svTppTGhLE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQxNTcyLzE2ODM5/MjY0NDktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}