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Company creates "solution" to address school "vaping incidents". (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by uberstar@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Some of the LinkedIn Responses are direct and on-point, and also hilariously/depressingly based depending on how you look at it:

EDIT: In hindsight, I think I should've looked into posting this in a different community.. It's closer to a silly "innovation".. soo.. is this considered FUD? I also don't support smoking or vaping, especially among kids. Original title had "privacy-violating" before the "solution".

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[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You'd expect some sort of privacy in bathrooms

That is the whole point of this mess. The alternative is a person or camera INSIDE the bathroom at all times. The camera would be so much cheaper to deploy...but privavcy laws, rightfully, say no.

With the sensor all it does is say "smoke/vape detected", from there an adult can check the hall cam to see who went in or just go right in to catch the kid.

I assume with the monitor, it makes it easy for a teacher sitting outside the bathroom and can see the popup (in some schools they already have them to check passes and listen for screeming)