Singapore Spying on Students’ Laptops

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A student uses a laptop for schoolwork while participating in remote learning, September 7, 2020. © 2020 Press Association via AP Images Singapore’s Education Ministry has made it mandatory for secondary school students to install tracking and remote access software on all laptops issued under a national digital literacy program, and on students’ personal devices that are used to attend classes online during Covid-19 related school closures. The software allows school officials and teachers to go through a student’s web search history and remotely “view student screens…

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