from APDNews.com: Australian schools are using computer software to monitor students for signs of radicalization, according to media reports.
Fairfax media reported on Friday that more than 10 schools had installed surveillance software onto its pupil's school-supplied computers to detect for political extremism.
The software alerts the principal and wellbeing officers when students search for specific terms over the internet.
Students' emails are also filtered, with a messages deemed to be from extremist group intercepted before the student is exposed to the content.
Jeremy Ludowyke, principal of Melbourne High School, one of the schools that has implemented the spyware, said parents and students had been consulted before it was introduced.
