{"id":327164,"date":"2026-05-20T07:24:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=327164"},"modified":"2026-05-22T06:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:45:26","slug":"beware-ai-cameras-in-the-classroom-filming-your-children-and-gathering-personal-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=327164","title":{"rendered":"Beware, AI cameras in the classroom filming your children and gathering personal data"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leo Hohmann \u2013 Leo\u2019s Newsletter May 18, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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There\u2019s a new and dire threat to privacy that parents of school children need to be aware of and be prepared to fight against.<\/p>\n

AI surveillance in the classroom.<\/p>\n

Frank Landymore of Futurism.com reports, in a May 18 article<\/a>,<\/strong> on a sinister plan hatched by the University of Washington to film pre-school children during class time. If this is going on in Washington, you have to believe it\u2019s going on, at least in the planning stages if not already happening, across the 50 states.<\/p>\n

The article reports that a planned University of Washington study would\u2019ve had preschool teachers wear cameras to \u201crecord first-person footage of everything in the classroom,\u201d including the children they were instructing, and use that footage to train AI models.<\/p>\n

Remember, those behind the global technocracy movement believe the only value a human being will hold in the new society they are trying to create, is the data sets they produce. This was stated in the wide open a few years ago by World Economic Forum adviser Yuval Noah Harari. Without your personal data to be stolen, manipulated, and sold for profit, you are nothing to them but a useless eater.<\/p>\n

Part of the plan is to create a \u201cdigital twin\u201d of every person on earth as an anchor to the new digital control grid.<\/p>\n

So why wouldn\u2019t the Epstein class of entitled billionaire elites who harbor perverted, twisted views of children, want a daily video record of everything your child does in school? Every word uttered. Every facial expression. Every action and reaction. Year over year for comparison\u2019s sake. Then they can use this data to create algorithms that predict everything your child will grow up to become before he or she is 10 or 12 years old?<\/p>\n

Harari, an Israeli historian and chief adviser to the WEF, has said that if he had access to artificial intelligence when he was younger, he believes he would have discovered he was a homosexual at age 11 or 12 instead of at 17. In fact, a Newsweek article<\/a><\/strong> from September 8, 2017, made the case that AI can predict \u201cwith startling accuracy\u201d whether a person is gay or straight.<\/p>\n

But this particular story, in the case of Washington State, has a positive outcome. It exemplifies the kind of parental awareness and bold activism that is needed to shut down the illegitimate use of AI technology in the classroom.<\/p>\n

Below is an excerpt from the Futurism article:<\/p>\n

If a parent was uncomfortable with all that, they had to manually opt-out \u2014 meaning that unless the researchers were given a formal no, a parent\u2019s child would\u2019ve been automatically opted into the experiment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith your permission, your child\u2019s lead teacher may wear a small teacher-worn camera that captures the teacher\u2019s approximate first-person perspective, and\/or we may place a fixed video camera in the classroom,\u201d reads a document given to parents and obtained by <\/a>404 Media <\/a><\/em>in a new investigative piece<\/a>. \u201cThese videos simply capture the normal interactions between teachers and children during regular classroom activities.\u201d<\/p>\n

The parents did a little more than opt out, however. They revolted, and the backlash was so heated that the University of Washington called off the experiment entirely, according to 404<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The documents given to parents sometimes used nebulous language and left key questions open-ended. They stated that the footage would\u2019ve been used to \u201cdevelop and evaluate AI models for assessing classroom interaction quality,\u201d and that the \u201cvideo data may be processed using cloud-based AI services.\u201d But they didn\u2019t specify what AI models or what AI companies would be involved.<\/p>\n

Thorny questions abounded. What about the parent of a child who didn\u2019t give consent? Would only they be blurred out in the footage? How would that realistically work? The documents only said the researchers would censor faces and names \u201cwhenever possible,\u201d but that meant your child was still being filmed.<\/p>\n

These looming uncertainties rattled parents.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am troubled by the idea of using my child\u2019s likeness in unknown AI tools and how this could be abused,\u201d one parent who chose to remain anonymous told 404<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was particularly concerned about families\u2019 ability to give informed consent,\u201d she added. \u201cAs a native English speaker, the vague language in the handout left me with a slew of questions. Many families in our school are migrants and non-native English speakers, but forms were not provided in any of their native languages.\u201d<\/p>\n

Experts in education were also raising eyebrows at the document\u2019s language.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho may the data may be shared with? How long will it be maintained? Who is funding the research? Those are questions that I would want answers to, and the answers could exist,\u201d Faith Boninger, co-director of the National Education Policy Center, told 404<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The University of Washington said it was putting the research on ice after parent backlash.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven the early responses from parents, we have terminated the study and are no longer seeking participation at any site,\u201d a spokesperson told 404<\/em>, noting that it\u2019s \u201cnot unusual to terminate a study in the early stages as we receive feedback from community partners.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cancelled study marks the latest evolutionary stage of AI\u2019s inroads into education<\/a><\/strong>. Companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft are pouring millions of dollars into teacher\u2019s unions and providing training on how to use their AI tools. Universities are partnering with AI companies to give students free access to AI, in what essentially amounts to putting a rubber stamp on how students are already dependent on AI to write essays and complete assignments \u2014 or, in other words, cheating<\/a><\/strong>. Now, with that massive drive to inject AI into the classroom, there\u2019s apparently a consequent demand to gather data to fuel the building of specialized models.<\/p>\n

Its demise is also an example of how parents have been spearheading the mounting AI backlash. A planned AI-powered high school in New York was cancelled<\/a>, for instance, after more moms and dads protested outside City Hall last month.<\/p>\n

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