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Can my school spy on my phone?

Your school can see what you do on your phone or laptop And, if the sites are not secured with HTTPS, it can also see what you've looked at.

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In a single tectonic shift, the Covid-19 pandemic pushed schooling and education online to adjust to lockdowns and social-distancing measures. Zoom classes have become the norm, and schools have been trying to keep their students’ education on track. Regardless of whether they’re starting school or heading off to university, it is almost certain that the time students are spending in classrooms, online or in real life, is being monitored. From Wi-Fi usage trackers to biometric scanners that log attendance, administrators can figure out who you are, where you are, and what you’re doing online.

Your school can see what you do on your phone or laptop

Whenever you connect to Wi-Fi on campus with your phone or your laptop, your school knows which websites you’ve visited. And, if the sites are not secured with HTTPS, it can also see what you’ve looked at. Your college or high school could also implement classroom management software on your school laptops, which monitors computer use and internet history, as was revealed in a study by privacy advocates Big Brother Watch in over 1,000 schools across the UK. Such software has also been implemented on students’ laptops since the start of the pandemic in 2020, with schools using proctoring apps to “watch” students when they do their schoolwork or take tests. If your school hosts its email system, it’s also highly likely that all correspondence through it is monitored too, as is the case in several UK universities.

Your school can see where you are

In addition to the sites you visit, your university can find out where you are from your Wi-Fi usage. In Australia, it was found that several universities track the movement of students around campus through their Wi-Fi-connected mobile phones, and can even tell the exact room the students are in. While the universities currently only track the movements of students in general, it’s entirely possible that the technology used could expand to identify activity on an individual level—to check the amount of time you’re not on campus and reflect that time in your grades, for instance. Combine that with the presence of CCTV camera surveillance on campus and the university can figure out your physical location at all times. That’s pretty invasive.

Can schools see what websites you’re visiting at home?

Your schools cannot track your online activity through Wi-Fi when you’re at home, but if your devices are installed with the aforementioned proctoring apps, your school might be able to watch you via the camera or monitor your keystrokes.

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Can school WiFi see your texts?

If your school has made you install a certificate on your phone or computer, or some other software for that matter, your HTTPS traffic is no longer safe. Ordinary SMS messages are not sent over WiFi even if your phone is connected to one. Instead they are sent over the mobile network.

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For sites that use HTTPS, the owner of the network (the school in your case) can see what domains you visit, e.g. facebook.com, but not what you do there - what pages you visit, what Friends you poke, what password you enter, etc. Facebook, Gmail, etc. use HTTPS. For sites use HTTP instead of HTTPS, your school can see all of the above, including your password. They can also modify the content you see. There is one caveat though. If your school has made you install a certificate on your phone or computer, or some other software for that matter, your HTTPS traffic is no longer safe. Ordinary SMS messages are not sent over WiFi even if your phone is connected to one. Instead they are sent over the mobile network.

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