Student Surveillance - How Hackers Can Help Protect Student Privacy

Explore the concerning intersection of technology and student privacy in this 50-minute conference talk from BSidesSF 2015. Investigate how venture capital-backed educational technologies, promising to revolutionize classrooms, are simultaneously creating unprecedented levels of student surveillance. Learn about the artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data mining tools being implemented in schools, and how they track students' every move from kindergarten through college. Discover the potential dangers these technologies pose to student privacy and how they may be grooming students for lifelong surveillance. Consider the ethical implications of turning education into one of the most data-intensive industries and examine how hackers can play a role in protecting student privacy in this increasingly digitized educational landscape.