Some UK schools are using ‘anti-radicalization software’ to spy on kids, because terrorism
‘A child is never too young to start on the path toward violent jihad — at least according to the logic of Britain’s Counter-Terrorism and Security Act of 2015. Luckily, there’s an app for that.
UK schools have an important role to play under the new law, which will start being enforced on July 1. In the language of the act, headmasters, teachers, and other staff must “have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism.” It’s not fully clear how educators are supposed to do that, although it will probably involve some combination of working with law enforcement, assessing students for signs of radicalization, training staff and parents in how to spot those signs, and monitoring online behavior.
The act — you might argue — turns every British schoolchild into a potential terrorist. It also creates a new market for technologies that will help teachers spy on their little proto-jihadis.’
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