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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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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

and you can see why people dont want to be teachers, because of little shits like the students acting this way and they get no consequences. when before they use to get suspensions and referrals.

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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

Fully automated rightwing deathcamps when?

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago (12 children)

I am a teacher who finished his student teaching the past school year in the Chicagoland area.

I just want to say…the FUCK? This woman was pissed because a student closed her laptop? She claims it “wiped” her lesson plan? No. I’m calling baloney on that story. Her stuff was saved in a cloud environment and would’ve been recovered easily or the OS would’ve saved the working doc.

If this student teacher was frustrated over this extremely small thing, and made a comment like that even “joking” then she is not cut out to be a teacher. At. All. This incident also just killed her career. No school will hire her with this story out there. What a moronic thing to do/say!

The tech issue of flagging this is just a whole other issue though and a good reminder to be careful of context because we are being monitored even when seemingly not.

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[–] snoons@piefed.ca 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

"Private" and "corporate messaging platform" do not go together, at all. Ever.

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[–] bluefootedbooby@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Now the real school shooters will know to use telegram. Thanks Snapchat for doing your part!

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I'm constantly amazed that people think telegram is secure.

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