Tech Wise News Brief – March 2026: AI School Surveillance, Data Center Debate, Grid Costs, Robot Pilot Cancelled

MCPS Pilots AI-Supported Video Monitoring Parents‘ Coalition of Montgomery County | March 2026 “This has not been discussed at the Board of Education. This has not had any procurement process…” Montgomery County Public Schools has begun testing an AI-assisted monitoring system using existing security cameras in several high schools as a pilot program. Read more:https://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2026/03/montgomery-county-public-schools-uses.html Maryland Office of People’s Counsel Warns of Transmission Costs Linked to Data Center Growth Maryland Office of the People‘s Counsel […]

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MCPS Students’ Personal Data Is Used for Race-based Profiling & Profits

Dear Parents/Guardians/Students, 5 years ago, local parents discovered something fishy about Naviance, the online college and career readiness platform MCPS kids use starting in 6th grade: Naviance profiles kids using their personal information (yours, too) and sells it. We brought this to the attention of MCPS. Repeatedly. Meeting after meeting, nothing happened. Now the nation knows, thanks to a 1/22/22 investigative report in The Markup. Schools in Europe, where privacy laws are much stricter, replaced […]

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