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I think it's important to distinguish that many of the things being monitored are not being posted publicly. From the article:

> In 2016, the company expanded that analysis to students' school email accounts, monitoring all messages sent over district networks.

> Gaggle monitors the digital content created by nearly 5 million U.S. K-12 students. That includes all their files, messages, and class assignments created and stored

> "opened a Google Doc, wrote down concerns about a boy in class acting strange, then typed every bad word they could think of"

I can see both sides of monitoring school equipment, or at least maintaining the ability to access it, but I don't believe most people here would consent to active content monitoring of every email, document, message, and drafts of documents even on workplace devices



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