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In UK Primary Schools, Jihobbyists Beware: You Are Being Watched!

posted by martyb on Saturday June 13 2015, @06:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the watch-out dept.

turgid sent in news of a report in the The Guardian:

It discusses software being marketed by several companies to UK (and US) schools to monitor the internet communications of pupils, some as young as four, for signs of (religious) "radicalisation."

The software simplistically monitors for lists of words and phrases such as "Jihobbyist," dodgy organisations, and the names of various ISIS propaganda videos.

For example: John Cantlie, War on Islam, Jihobbyist, Pogrom, YODO, Storm Front, Kuffs, Message to America.

When use of such a term is detected, a screenshot can be forwarded to a teacher. Perhaps the teacher should then dial 999 and ask for the police?

A jihobbyist is someone who sympathises, but rather than getting themselves stuck somewhere warm and sunny like Iraq or Syria, they instead only cheer them on from the comfort of their own home. You learn something new every day.

I suspect some companies are going to make a lot of money out of this — and young children are going to have much fun winding up the teachers.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday June 13 2015, @07:24PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Saturday June 13 2015, @07:24PM (#195865) Homepage Journal

    It is for this specific reasons that journalists are expected to ask for comments from all sides of a controversy.

    The Portland Police Bureau officer who dropped me a dime on my way home from tweeting a lecture on engineering ethics to the Portland Startup Weekend was pissing herself laughing. If I had really threatened guns or explosions, don't you think I'd be arrested?

    I have already asked The Oregonian for an apology; now their going to get a defamation lawsuit.

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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday June 13 2015, @07:30PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday June 13 2015, @07:30PM (#195868) Homepage

    Superb Troll, my man. A-.

  • (Score: 2) by t-3 on Saturday June 13 2015, @08:27PM

    by t-3 (4907) on Saturday June 13 2015, @08:27PM (#195882)

    Does dropping a dime have a different meaning over there? The cop snitched on you?

  • (Score: 2) by Gravis on Sunday June 14 2015, @08:07AM

    by Gravis (4596) on Sunday June 14 2015, @08:07AM (#196035)

    I have already asked The Oregonian for an apology; now their going to get a defamation lawsuit.

    they reported on what happened/what they were told which is their job.

    but look at this bit:

    he apparently threatened violence, explosions and guns, co-organizer Jeff Martens told participants

    this is the crux of the issue because apparent means "seeming real or true, but not necessarily so."

    they have nothing to apologize for because it's the truth.