Saturday, May 9, 2009

Video cameras monitoring in ece centres

We heard today from a centre using Tiny Telly so that parents can have streaming video access to the centre at all times.

This raised interesting questions of privacy, professionalism,and parental expectations that we did not have time to address today.

I do have a number of concerns although I realise there are also some good points for this sort of surveillance - maybe.

What about the teachers. Although this may offer some protection,does it invade privacy?

Are parents fears allayed or increased?

If parents share their password with other friends or family members or if the information is hacked into - what about the privacy for children other than their own?

I have so many questions about this....

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