BIG BROTHER FROM MASH IS ALREADY IN CLASS: DONM AND DIT STARTED UNAUTHORIZED AUDIO RECORDING OF SCHOOL LESSONS.
Recently, another digital "innovation" was revealed from the Department of Education and Science and the Department of Information Technologies of Moscow (DIT and DONM). In the interactive panel software installed today in almost every classroom in every school in the capital (LCD panel running on the Moscow e-school operating system), a voice recording agent was discovered that automatically activates the microphone, records the sound in the classroom and sends it to the DIT servers. Moreover, the module was created several months ago, and until recently it was publicly available in the MOS repository, in the DIT cloud service. But then it was carefully removed from there. They also changed the description of the agent - from the specific "agent for audio recording of a lesson" to the neutral "agent ensures the execution of the lesson". The Ministry of Education and Science declares that the process of testing a new teacher's assistant service agreed upon by the Council of Expert Teachers is underway. Apparently, every recorded biometric PD is anonymous, it's all for the sake of the teachers - nothing to worry about. However, a public analysis of the code of this package by one of the employees of Moscow schools indicates the opposite - including the lack of privacy, the module developer hides the notification of the start of voice recording, making this whole story questionable from the point of view of the current constitution and laws.