<story><title>FTC to crack down on companies that illegally surveil children learning online</title><url>https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/05/ftc-crack-down-companies-illegally-surveil-children-learning-online</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SamuelAdams</author><text>Why stop at children? College students have been increasingly surveilled during the pandemic and the shift to online education.&lt;p&gt;The popular tool Lock Down Browser is more or less spyware that takes over your device, monitors every click, and watches every movement. And yet most colleges and universities can’t reliably detect cheating even with this tool.</text></comment>
<story><title>FTC to crack down on companies that illegally surveil children learning online</title><url>https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/05/ftc-crack-down-companies-illegally-surveil-children-learning-online</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ro_bit</author><text>Is it just me or has the US Government been doing a lot of actions recently. Just today I saw two other articles about how the gov is cracking down on Juul, some anti right to repair company, etc. Is it just all getting published now?</text></comment>