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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)

submitted 1 day ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] wizzer@eviltoast.org 24 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

closed her laptop mid-class and wiped her lesson plan

So what awful setup was she running where the laptop doesn’t just sleep on lid close, and the document isn’t still there on wake? Who prepares a document to work from that isn’t saved?

The rest is some 1984 bullshit, but I’m wondering what the hell is wrong with that laptop.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 15 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's a cursed setup, must be set to shutdown on lid close, but also it doesn't hang if there is an unsaved document like every other time?

And no habitual Ctrl+s after every sentence or two? If the kid didn't wipe her work, a random windows crash or forced update would have.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 14 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Might be a Windows user who set to shutdown on lid close because otherwise you open your bag to find a hot laptop with a dead battery, sleep doesn't really work on Windows for years now.

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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 4 points 16 hours ago

Keep in mind this teacher is in her early 20s. Most people that age don't really know much about how computers and files work.

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[–] Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works 28 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

To the witless idiots defending authoritarianism to stop school shootings, If this sort of shit stopped school shootings then I guess we wouldn't have school shootings.

Guess it doesn't. https://www.edweek.org/leadership/school-shootings-this-year-how-many-and-where/2026/01

I do get the angry anti-2A people willing to take everyone's guns to stop school shootings, because besides one italian kid shooting an insurance CEO, you aren't really making good use of that amendment to hold your government accountable in the first place.

[–] Mearcfara@lemmy.ml -3 points 8 hours ago

Why did you choose such a clickbatey title?

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 15 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

As a teacher you should be smart enough to know there is no private conversation to be had on Snapchat. She learned a valuable lesson about her lack of privacy.

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