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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Glendale school district to monitor students'
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Thu Aug 29 00:06:58 2013
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 20:46:26 -0700
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Glendale school district to monitor students' social media posts
http://j.mp/12NpuTs (L.A. Times)
"Glendale school officials have hired a company to monitor and analyze
students' public social media posts, saying it will help them step in
when students are in danger of harming themselves or others. After
collecting information from students' posts on such sites as Facebook,
Instagram, YouTube and Twitter, the Hermosa Beach company, Geo
Listening, will provide Glendale school officials with a daily report,
the Glendale News-Press reported this week. The report will
categorize posts by their frequency and how they relate to
cyber-bullying, harm, hate, despair, substance abuse, vandalism and
truancy, according to the newspaper. Glendale Unified, which piloted
the service at Hoover, Glendale and Crescenta Valley high schools last
year, will pay the company $40,500 to monitor posts made by about
13,000 middle school and high school students at eight Glendale
schools."
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I suspect officials are going to learn what pseudonyms are all about.
--Lauren--
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