AwarenessWork, school & institutions
School devices & monitoring
A child’s whole day on a Chromebook the school can read.
Understand it
School-issued devices and accounts are managed by the school: web filtering, activity logging, and sometimes software that flags messages or searches. It keeps children safer, but it also means a child’s browsing, documents and sometimes location sit with the school and its suppliers, not the family.
How to spot it
Ask the school what its devices and filtering record, and who the data is shared with.
Close the gap
- Treat a school device as the school’s - keep family accounts and life off it.
- Use a personal device for anything genuinely private.
- Ask the school about its monitoring, how long data is kept, and which suppliers see it.
- Teach children that school accounts aren’t private spaces.
What to do about it
This is data other organisations collect about you, and you often can't simply opt out. What you can do is use your UK data rights to see what they hold and object to how it's used.