Tldr surveillance software on loaned school computers can be used by schools to find when students are using lgbtq keywords and potentially out them

Having a camera in their bedroom wasn't enough, gotta go full on thought police.

That's why you never use a school or work computer for personal use.

at a recent job i handled backups and restores for the company and in the process of restoring requested files from laptops you see everything else they have saved too. seemed like pretty much everyone was using their work laptop as their one and only computer.

Porn. So much porn.

And, unfortunately, illegal stuff. Which we had to report.

Joke's on them... I put normal porn on my work laptop so they think I'm into normal shit, then I watch the REA, fucked up porn on my personal PC.

It's not remote learning that enabled this, it's educational institution malware.

Old news (2022) but still dystopian.

OK...i dony have kids, but even if you ignore the anti gay/trans aspect of it, this is fucking creepy, right? Like this seems like an unacceptable level of intrusion into a child's life. I find it staggering that this just kind of happened and it wasnt front and center news everywhere!
Absolute clown shoes level of crazy.

When I was that age I was already "18" when online. I watched way too much explicit content back then. I think I could’ve been in therapy…

If it's your only computer, you may not have a choice, and we're talking about kids here, who are stuck with what their parents do or don't buy them. I can easily see a teen in a lower-income household being stuck between a rock and a hard place here.