“This product is just the latest in a growing number of student surveillance tools—designed to allow school administrators to monitor and control student behavior at scale, on and off campus,” Doug Levin, co-founder and national director for the K12 Security Information eXchange, a non-profit focused on cybersecurity for schools, told Motherboard. “While the problems they purport to solve are real, they also introduce other risks to students—including the risks of spurious accusations and targeted harassment by school officials and law enforcement.

Levin further noted that the increased scrutiny offered by surveillance tools “has been shown to be disproportionately targeted against minorities, recent immigrants, LGBTQ kids,” and other marginalized groups.

Cox, J. (2022, August 18). A Tool That Monitors How Long Kids Are in the Bathroom Is Now in 1,000 American Schools. Vice. https://www.vice.com/en/article/ehallpass-1000-thousand-schools-monitor-bathroom/