When asked about it, John Ranta, computer teacher said: So far, fairly few students and even teachers know what Impero is and what it does. Its in the taskbar, too, so clearly it isn’t trying to hide its presence. Your account isn’t an admin account, so you can’t add or remove programs, or even the desktop shortcuts that you don’t use.Īnd in case you thought deleting a document deletes it, Impero “stores data captures of incidents/web history/application use/printed documents/deleted documents and activity timeline”.It isn’t very subtle about itself, announcing itself with a desktop notification whenever you log in on school WiFi that “Impero Workstation is Active”. In fact, you can do very little with “your” computer because you don’t control it. Also, Impero allows the network admins to remotely control your computer and add software.Īnd in case you wanted to remove or disable Impero, you can’t. It may be referring to the ability to assign rules per room, or a more in-depth tracking system. “A complete log of all online activity, including screenshot and video captures … provides a historical timeline of user activity, including username, computer name, application or website, time, date and screenshot/video recording…”Īpparently, Impero can “track devices using geo-location management”, although it’s unsure what this means. Staff can also trigger a screenshot or a screen recording at any time. In addition, Impero has “… live thumbnail view of student devices”, allowing the staff to see everything on your screen. Also, programs start slower than usual, making a computer that already runs on 4GB of RAM (the average for 2013, which was before Windows 8.1 was released) stressed to run even a few applications. 2 In other words, makes its code run before your program starts up. Impero does this by putting code into all programs on the computer (via a. Then the school administration can see the screenshot / video recording sent. This means that if Impero accidentally detects something bad, you could be locked out of “your” computer. ban internet, lock screen” when a certain keyword or keywords are found. “The software then logs the capture in a … database as a screenshot or video recording with details of the incident, including the user, the application, the date and time.” Staff can also “Set automatic …, e.g. Impero Education Pro is a piece of software that monitors everything you type, searching for key words like “drugs”. While these laptops are very convenient and useful, they can also be potentially a way for the school to monitor you via an installed piece of software called Impero. This is the first year that the Sophomores and Freshmen got their own, personal, school-provided “One to One” laptops. Max Hogan, Contributing Author and Tech Guru
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