Smells Like Teen Surveillance

SoCal startup Geo Listening inked a contract a few years ago with LA’s Glendale School District to monitor student posts on social media and smartphone use for potential violence, drug use, bullying, truancy and suicidal threats.  You could argue something like this helps ensure public safety, or you could take the “slippery slope” line.  If the history of institutional spying suggests anything, it’s that overreach and an effort to control is more often than not a logical extension.

Beyond the politics of it all, there’s a human story here — a cost to the freedom of the next generation.