Schools across the US are requiring students to install CLocked—an app that demands full access to personal files and data on their own devices. This isn't about school security. It's about monitoring kids 24/7, even when they're home.
I started a petition asking the Department of Education to ban this practice. Students already carry enormous stress from academics alone. Adding constant surveillance to their personal phones doesn't make them safer—it makes them more anxious, and honestly, it feels like a violation of basic privacy rights.
Some students have even reported the app breaking their phones and making it harder to complete homework. We could easily solve this by letting schools provide devices for school use only, keeping personal phones actually personal.
Has anyone dealt with this? Does your school do something similar? I'm curious what people think—does this feel like an overreach to you too? If it does, consider signing and sharing the petition. Real change starts when enough people say this isn't okay.
Posted by Whole-Cupcake8175
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I hadn’t heard about that. Very scary. Sadly we’re supposed to have been through this already… remember this one?
>In 2010, the Lower Merion School District near Philadelphia settled a landmark federal lawsuit for $610,000 after administrators remotely activated webcams on student-issued laptops, capturing over 56,000 secret images and screenshots inside students’ homes without their knowledge or consent.