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Gaggle is an Illinois-based tech company that begin in 1998 as an email client for students. It has since expanded not only its services, but its scope, as well.
The company’s website describes its purpose:
Since the inception of Gaggle as a student email provider in 1998, the company has grown significantly adding products that help schools create safe learning environments. When asked why he chose the name “Gaggle,” Jeff replies: “Our goal was to give teachers an easy way to watch over their gaggle of students.” Jeff’s vision of student-centric schools using cutting-edge technology to safely inspire creativity and ingenuity remains the driving force in Gaggle’s ongoing story.
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The Buzzfeed exposé describes how Gaggle gets its product into American classrooms:
Using a combination of in-house artificial intelligence and human content moderators paid about $10 an hour, Gaggle polices schools for suspicious or harmful content and images, which it says can help prevent gun violence and student suicides. It plugs into two of the biggest software suites around, Google’s G Suite and Microsoft 365, and tracks everything, including notifications that may float in from Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram accounts linked to a school email address.
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Putting such systems in place in schools seems to have one purpose: Make students accustomed to being under constant surveillance while they are young, so that when they are adults, being watched is something so common they don’t realize that their rights have been taken from them and thus they wouldn’t think of protesting against any other surveillance program.
The last word goes to Sarah Roberts, a UCLA professor, who told Buzzfeed, “My sense about this particular suite of products and services is that it's a solution in search of a problem, which is to say that the only way that the logic of it works is if we first accept that our children ought to be captured within a digital system, basically, from the time they're sentient until further notice.”
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Liberty isn't mentioned in the protection racket- compliance to rules is the order of the day.
The company’s website describes its purpose:
Since the inception of Gaggle as a student email provider in 1998, the company has grown significantly adding products that help schools create safe learning environments. When asked why he chose the name “Gaggle,” Jeff replies: “Our goal was to give teachers an easy way to watch over their gaggle of students.” Jeff’s vision of student-centric schools using cutting-edge technology to safely inspire creativity and ingenuity remains the driving force in Gaggle’s ongoing story.
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The Buzzfeed exposé describes how Gaggle gets its product into American classrooms:
Using a combination of in-house artificial intelligence and human content moderators paid about $10 an hour, Gaggle polices schools for suspicious or harmful content and images, which it says can help prevent gun violence and student suicides. It plugs into two of the biggest software suites around, Google’s G Suite and Microsoft 365, and tracks everything, including notifications that may float in from Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram accounts linked to a school email address.
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Putting such systems in place in schools seems to have one purpose: Make students accustomed to being under constant surveillance while they are young, so that when they are adults, being watched is something so common they don’t realize that their rights have been taken from them and thus they wouldn’t think of protesting against any other surveillance program.
The last word goes to Sarah Roberts, a UCLA professor, who told Buzzfeed, “My sense about this particular suite of products and services is that it's a solution in search of a problem, which is to say that the only way that the logic of it works is if we first accept that our children ought to be captured within a digital system, basically, from the time they're sentient until further notice.”
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More here
Liberty isn't mentioned in the protection racket- compliance to rules is the order of the day.
