Texas schools lead the nation in the use of social media surveillance. But the tools mostly return false positives. | via TexasStandard
, but it’s unlikely the monitoring identified the shooter to authorities, Sen says. Listen to the interview above or read the transcript below.Texas Standard: Just to be clear, a computational journalist digs into the data, and that seems to be what you and your colleagues have been doing when it comes to the extent of social media surveillance in Texas schools.
Yes, that’s right. The four services we looked at are called Social Sentinel, Securly, Gaggle and GoGuardian. And they’re usually hired by the school districts. And what we found in our reporting is that very often students and parents were not notified that these services were in place and had no real opportunity to weigh in on whether it was right for their kids to be monitored in this way.
For the social media monitoring services, they do monitor the broader web. So I have been spending a lot of time looking at a particular one called Social Sentinel. And what Social Sentinel claims to do is monitor social media and Twitter specifically for what they call the ‘language of harm.’ So, specific words and phrases that may indicate that a student is suicidal or might be about to commit some violence.
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