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bust mechanisms ready to be missing. some schools have the have to be interesting to see when it comes to how do you handle them for how long do you have to have ah i'm british minded, you're welcome to the dublin news asia. glad you could join us. the government of the indian capital jelly is installing c c t v cameras in school classrooms. it says it is to keep students safe that reasoning ball not of a series of sexual assaults and rapes against students in schools. some perpetrated by senior school students themselves from by school employees, and others by outside does more than

a 1000 schools run by the delhi government ought to be covered by the scheme. but it's dividing opinion across the board as did able to correspondent all the pot reports this government school in delhi became one of the 1st schools to install the c d, v cameras and classrooms and public areas. every day, hundreds of students here are constantly under surveillance with each moment of their day being phoned from the comfort of his office principal rockridge. the yard can monitor every thing happening at his school. he says that camera footage allows him to quickly tackle problems like bullying at betty crime. something is there, okay, are a warning system. you can see there some students if they have some kind of from a frank or something to darrell. so this, so having the idea, okay,

you are being watched, our thing is being recorded to that as to that discipline kill sent. but many of the students feel uncomfortable at being under the gaze. all the almost 200 cameras in the building. we know the camera, i think no student would want to be watched by cameras in the classroom. and i'm sure if you were a student, you would want that either. so far, cameras have been installed in or 500 schools across the state. concerned with the growing number of cameras, the daily parents association has taken the state government to good thing to day parents association head up budget. i got them and her team are meeting the a lawyer to discuss the case example. oh, but they are preparing for a hearing in the coming week and then we'll be hanging up. roger darcy's that live streaming in the schools jeopardizes the safety and security of young girls and

could lead do digital wires them. i waited from the perspective of parents. i think nobody has the right to see if my child or daughter is studying or not studying in the classroom to seek or not even parents have that right. i see this moved by the deli government as encouraging a culture of light, stalking, stopping commodity, the intern at freedom foundation, an organization that defense privacy rights and online freedom is also critical of the mass surveillance is constant. so the lens of children also has a negative impact on their social development. so what is happening essentially is that a savings of children is being increased in the name of making them more secure than not getting more secure instead to the ard and i'll be harmed as increased security at the cost of privacy is hotly disputed around the world. india continues to rise

up the list of countries who washed their citizens more closely. the debate in delhi is whether school classrooms should be the focus of such serve alliance. many parents and students think not. and joining me another more context of dot to send you to my partner from giga, that's the german institute for global and area studies. and part of for dr. martha research looks at the impact of digital surveillance on civil liberties. doctor mother, welcome. what does the research say? does cameras, surveillance in classrooms keep students safe? i thank you for having me here. oh, i'm, it is very different because i have been studying schools in delhi, in calcutta, in buying it all. so why ccd cameras are becoming standard practice? there is no standardization of best practices. however,

in the schools that i have been to when these are mostly city based schools, there have been the bullying from down to an extent in the schools that i have gone to and interacted with parents with faculty members. with students themselves. so when it comes to your bullying incidence. yes. and to an extent last, if you can, the cameras have reduced these incidents of stocking of how this meant. oh baby. i heard a lot of my assumptions also challenge to and i did feed were employees because i assume that students would be a good be. i would try to change their behavior. it comes to the cameras inside classrooms. however, point of time i saw that they did, they got used to it and they were not that aware of the cameras be there, which was quite revolutionary of the going to eat analyzation of the surveillance

mechanisms that is happening for just based on what you're saying kadelli covered would appear to have the correct argument that they are keeping children safe by installing ccv cameras in delhi government schools. is that correct? us? i would like to give it a kind of a cat here because what's important is that you have a reasonable expectation of privacy. and that is that you cannot come and put cameras inside restrooms or in certain areas that be considered to be the private. and here this has to align with the purpose for which the data is be connected, as well as the processes in place to prevent the misuse of data. and this varies from scores to scorn. i go back to my point about standardization of practices. why some schools have put in place robust mechanisms where deed are gonna be misused.

some schools haven't the hasn't been there since at dia, zation, when it comes to how do you handle that data? for how long do you handle that data? or who has access to it for how long is it stored? all these questions are very important when it comes to, especially children, when they're data has to be handled with extra care. and there has to be extra due diligence here. right? so yes, been somebody happy with the decision on jared, the government that majority of the balance that i spoke to for them, it was a confidence building measures that schools during orientation when they had this bed and are just going back to the point of purpose and a process and the digital data protections in india, would you say the 3rd, the way digital data is handled and the protections around. but defer to the way that differ in india to the where their handle potentially in the worst,

particularly the sensitization around that by west also that is defense like in germany it is pretty good. the standard rentals g to be or is, are there, and that is also the rules when it comes to the fundamental rights of digital data protection. but in india, it does lax, the godaddy digital digital burslur data protection act ability, which is this is part media and now it has been passed and it gives god blanche to the goldman that a lot of wide exemptions. and then i have your privacy concern, that's the 1st problem. we don't have a data protection bill act in place. second concern is we don't have a statutory body of data protection where people can resist conserve, seek redress so, so that doesn't dare. so it's pretty lacks the data protection act,

but this is at the macro nearby. what i would like to stress here is that when it comes to schools that's at the micro level and where they deal with parents. and parents are pretty vocal about their children's protection, at least now. and mind you, let me put in one examiner information here that ccb counselors have become a standard practice across india from 2017 onwards. what about 60? i've been seeing this in bangalore, in delon gonna in calcutta in move by recently long by one of those 65 pals and the civic and private schools have oh, brought in caesar, doing cameras. so these are over there, but the concomitant data projection measures those have not been in place. so again, i stress the some schools do good work. they have these control rooms were very few

people have access to the data feed, why some school was just put in a deception media. i can see what happened. this is it. so it's not standardized. let's look at that on a sorry to interrupt you. a little look at the non digital side of this argument because the government's claim continues to be looked. we want to keep students safe. therefore we need to do the cameras. and based on some of the experiences that you have had, it seems to be working, at least in some schools. let's look at the other side of it. is this also a case of the government washing its hands off its own responsibility to ensure that school employees protect children? this is actually a very good question because i did. this also differs from state to state like in daily government, one of their flagship areas, as education and hen. and here, there is this consultation constantly happening between the government officials

and schools about especially the schools that are getting government support. so here the government cannot wash off its hands of security of children when it comes to this place because these are the scores are accountable to the government and the government is ultimately accountable to the voters, the parents. so in the video they don't. private schools here any we have some amount of autonomy when it comes to the safety of children, but here no one sees x, for example, an equal gotta for example, we see that the municipal corporation is talking to the schools and trying to install the city. we kept us outside the premises to prevent incidences of violence of crime, especially they started with schools which are guns only gun schools or education

institutions. so we see mixed picture from state to state. so yup. so i don't think we can have a simple answer here to suddenly a very different score time to the time the pie was in school, which was many years ago. thank you so much for joining us to the doctors and get them up. i'll try for that context. thank you so much. my pleasure. and that's it for today. bill, of course, most orders from the region on our website, the w dot com, forward slash asia. and as ever, you can follow us on facebook and twitter back again tomorrow at the same time. lindsey event is the end of the pandemic in site. we show what he could look like will return in the normal and we visit those who are finding it difficult

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