"...he's 13..."
"Exactly. What could a 13-year-old boy be doing in the bathroom for that long unless it's something suspicious?"
"...you poor, sheltered soul."
...or possibly speed things up, I don't kink shame.
It's like how Apple pushed for their Apple computers to be in schools in the 80s (90s?), and how Google pushes Chromebooks onto educators.
This has been going on since at least the 90s. Most schools put CCTV in and watch everything that is done on the property, and administrators have very little limits of access controls in place to make sure nobody is creepily watching little timmy all the time.
I agree wholeheartedly though that schools are used as a way to normalize authoritarian tech or policies.
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
Now, it is watching everything all the time, and recording everything all the time.
or do they want to know who goes to the bathroom at the same time?
These systems wind up getting used just like CCTVs. They get retroactively employed whenever and however the powers that be want them to. Sometimes that's figuring out what happened after some incident. Usually it's just petty stuff.
