Comment by tavavex

Safety, security and thinking of the children was always going to be the vector that this would be implemented with. Once the school boards clear this and schools begin filling up with real-time voice recognition hardware like this under the guise of "safety", going further is just a small step away.

I wouldn't be shocked if in ten years, parents will be getting monthly summaries of their kids' out-of-class activities, complete with the most objectionable things they said out of class, their compliance score, the topics they like to discuss, the kids they associate with. Then we'll see the normalization of things like Flock from this post, followed by endless expansions in what these businesses can do to "keep you safe".