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Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School. (www.gadgetreview.com)

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Sixty minutes. That’s how long it took for a private Snapchat message to travel from Kristen Volpe’s phone to the FBI to the deputies standing in her elementary school hallway. On January 29, 2025, the 22-year-old student teacher at John L. Hensey Elementary in Washington, Illinois, vented to her boyfriend and two roommates — three people total — after a student closed her laptop mid-class and wiped her lesson plan. She referenced shooting the student or the school. She meant it as a frustrated joke. Snapchat’s algorithm didn’t get the humor.

No student reported her. No parent. No coworker. The flag was entirely automated. Snapchat’s policy permits voluntary emergency disclosures to law enforcement — no warrant required — when the platform determines imminent harm exists. The algorithm makes that initial call. Think of it like your Ring doorbell deciding to call 911 on its own, except the doorbell is reading your text messages.

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[–] theherk@lemmy.world 168 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My guess is most are very young. Goes to show our civil liberties worldwide, especially since 9/11, have eroded tremendously. Young people have grown up in a world where privacy is a joke and government spying is a foregone conclusion.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I work mostly with people older than myself. The younger ones are shocked by everyone's lackadaisical privacy practices. The older ones all say, "oh well, it's everywhere and I have nothing to hide. It's not like you can get away from it."

[–] dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't know a single young person who actually cares about Internet privacy. The vast majority of them are on social media all the time.

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I realized this because we have a younger engineer who didn’t even have an Adblock running on their browser. When I asked them about it, they just told me that they grew up seeing ads so it doesn’t matter to them 🤯

[–] dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 1 points 1 week ago

Damn, it really sucks how normalized internet brainrot is becoming.

[–] Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm a young people that's a privacy and free speech extremist. Thus, you're refused.

[–] dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 2 points 1 week ago

I now know 1, so that is true.

[–] theherk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

To clarify, I'm not saying any demographic is above poor privacy concerns. But there is a subtle difference between laziness / difficulty understanding how to mitigate the threat and the believe that it isn't a threat but an okay behavior, however subtle that difference is. I don't want to sound like an old man tilting at windmills and blaming things on the youth. I actually think it is a problem that they are just suffering, not responsible for.