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this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2025
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TL;DR don't assume privacy on a device you don't own. It belongs to the school/your employer, not you.
I don't think the responsibility is on the children for assuming they have privacy on a school-issued device; surveillance often happens without transparency, and it's reasonable to not expect words like "gay" or "trans" in your writing to automatically be flagged and sent to administrators.
While it's great to educate people on the threats and the ways to mitigate them as individuals, there are policy choices being made here that need to change and the focus should be on how we can achieve that.
true. don't assume privacy on a device you do own, either.
I have set things up to the degree that I can safely assume that my device is private because I severed so many data connections. But most device users can't assume the same of their Microsoft and Google spyware devices. To learn more, check out pewdiepie's more recent videos, he has a good summary of the issues we face as a society.