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“FIRST WARNING: INAPPROPRIATE USE.” Walking into class before my first high school midterm, my heart raced. I had no idea what that email was about. What had I done? Would I be in trouble?
Students at Staples High School produce an enormous digital footprint filled with essays, homework, emails and surveys, all of which is monitored by the third party surveillance system, Gaggle. While students may have no expectation of privacy on school-owned platforms, because we are required to use Google suite for every piece of schoolwork, and Gaggle has access to everything on or linked to that Google address, it infringes upon our privacy.