Is My School Allowed to Do This?

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PatSilverFox

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That is easy to get by, I do it all the time.
More of a precaution that no one cares about here.
And sure they can do it *rolls eyes*
 

Fappy

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Are they allowed to make students register their laptops? If you want to use their service than yes. Are they allowed to search your Facebook information? Only if you signed something that said they could.
 

Fleischer

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Arluza said:
you must be in high school. So yes. as an American, you have NO RIGHTS until you are 18, and even then, a high school is allowed to deny you those rights.
A student in public school's are limited, not completely removed. Students receive *most* of the civil rights a citizen expects, save freedom of speech, assembly and a few others.

Arluza said:
A college is allowed to do that as well, but probably wouldn't.
No, they are not allowed to do so.
 

Antari

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Niflhel said:
Antari said:
If they are simply monitoring their connection via their own equipment then there's not alot that can be done. If this "Registering" your laptop has them placing software on your computer, thats HIGHLY illegal if your country has privacy laws.
I doubt it's highly illegal if you VOLUNTEER to have said software placed on your laptop.
True, if you voluntarily give it to them with the understanding that such will happen, theres not too much that can be done about it.

If they put something on your system and say that they haven't, that would be illegal.
 

Lush Kills

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The simple answer is, if the schools contract, or "rules" say they can, then yes... here in England anyway, we have to sign and agree with all of the schools terms and conditions (if you will) before officially joining that school or college... I'd be surprised if you didn't have to sign or give any agreement to any of their rules.... technically, if you didn't sign any form of agreement, or give your consent to their terms and conditions, then they are in fact in breach of human rights... without your documented agreement, they cant force you to do anything you dont want to... that even involves leaving the classroom without permission or answering back to a teacher... same applies in most workplaces or universities.
 
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killer-corkonian said:
...Isn't that kind of disproportionate retribution? I mean, he could just use ManyCam or whatever to replace it with a humorous gif.
It depends. Granted, if he just wants to get by he just needs to circumvent the system (hence the humorous gif or the perpetual-studying loop). If he wants to change the system, he needs to break it, and that requires embarrassing those who got it installed in the first place. Granted, a kid is only obligated to survive primary schooling, but until it is broken and changed, all future students will have to deal with the same crap.

Whether or not it is legal for school faculty to spy on their students, it is certainly unethical, especially since the faculty in question cannot effectively rely on their own judgement or that of a standard set of parameters to determine either when spying should happen or what kind of information is appropriate for a student to have (hence the controversies regarding internet content control software.) Furthermore, the temptation to misuse this degree of power has proven to be too great, not only with incidents of faculty spying on (and capturing images of) students after hours in states of undress, but also incidents of students gaining access to the content of peer laptops, and incidents of faculty blackmailing students for sexual favors.

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sms_117b said:
Yes they are, Universities do it as a standard (in the UK), They will do the same with mobiles, and as a lot of school techies arn't mobile friendly that just mean no wi-fi for your mobile if you have to register your laptop.
Are you sure they do it as standard in the UK? I watched boatloads of porn in my halls in first year and nothing came of it...
 

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I work for my now old school district and have for the past two years, I know passwords and have an admin account.
So my (old) school district just plain out blocks websites, you can use proxies to get around them and such, which I and a select few actually do. You can bring your laptop in and connect to the guest wifi but that wont even let you on youtube. To get onto the hardcore wifi you have to have the certificate and an admin setup (again I can do this!! But I only ever did it for a teacher who's work laptop crashed and burned....)

All in all since they are providing the interwebz for you, and they have to face anything that their students do it's totally acceptable for them to block and not allow certain websites.

But what does irk my chain is that some computer labs throughout said school district have a program that allows them to control, lock, and look at what's on your computer screen. This program can't be used all the time because it outright kills programs like Autodesk Inventor. I don't like that I could be checking my email and my teacher or even a classmate that is playing with the teachers computer can read my emails.

I do like it when they bash the kids that are playing solitaire though :]
 

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Mandalore_15 said:
sms_117b said:
Yes they are, Universities do it as a standard (in the UK), They will do the same with mobiles, and as a lot of school techies arn't mobile friendly that just mean no wi-fi for your mobile if you have to register your laptop.
Are you sure they do it as standard in the UK? I watched boatloads of porn in my halls in first year and nothing came of it...
Yeah, so did I and I had to register my laptop to have access to their network. What I do on the laptop if they havn't restricted sites before the router is my business muwahahaha