Huntsville schools say call from NSA led to monitoring students online
Source: AL
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - A secret program to monitor students' online activities began quietly in Huntsville schools, following a phone call from the NSA, school officials say.
Huntsville schools Superintendent Casey Wardynski says the system began monitoring social media sites 18 months ago, after the National Security Agency tipped the school district to a student making violent threats on Facebook.
The NSA, a U.S. agency responsible for foreign intelligence, this week said it has no record of a call to Huntsville and does not make calls to school systems.
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About a year and half ago, Wardynski said, the NSA called Huntsville and reported a high school student had threatened on Facebook to injure a teacher.
Read more: http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2014/09/after_warning_from_nsa_huntsvi.html
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)Please return to your enjoyable reality TV programming and snacks. There is nothing more to see here.
Soylent Brice
(8,308 posts)OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)who is really most to blame?
Edit: Meant to post to OP. Sorry.
uhnope
(6,419 posts)Hey, cholo, this is an ese and some vato on FB is causing problemos
Dr. Xavier
(278 posts)and they'll take a mile. So it begins...
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)This seems pretty much like spying on citizens. Didn't the President say they were specifically NOT doing that?
24601
(3,963 posts)is true because....
NSA always calls school personnel that don't have a security clearance and discloses classified information...
NSA called the school, because they tend not to have secure systems....
No one at the school can recall precisely who at NSA called with this information....
Or perhaps a middle school student pranked the school - sounds more likely to me.
Try this...DU, this is the federal government. One or more of your posters has been saying things that could be interpreted as a threat....would you please monitor everybody? Of course you can't have my name & number, you might give it to the terrorists
ROTFLMAO!
Some paranoid fuckwit administrator needed an excuse to spy on everyone at the school.
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)Call from the NSA because a student threatens a teacher? Pull the other one. They need to round up those administrators and send them to an alternative school.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)JoeyT
(6,785 posts)If y'all remember the America's Army brainwashing/recruiting tool thinly disguised as a video game that came out a while back, Wardynski is the asshole behind it.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)bigworld
(1,807 posts)Either a student called and pranked the administration, or the administrators just made it all up to CYA.