SkieDoes tracking tablet location break student privacy laws?
Location tracking is lawful or not depending on consent, purpose and your local rules, so a school needs clear consent and a written policy before turning it on. Skie provides the controls, such as who can see it and a visible managed device. The school provides the notices. This is general information, not legal advice.
No tool decides this for you. Whether tracking a student tablet is acceptable depends on where you are, the age of the students, what parents have agreed to and what you use the data for. Skie does not make a school compliant with any particular law, and you should not read it that way.
What Skie does is give the school controls that make a careful policy possible. Location pages can be limited by role. The device shows that it is managed, with no hidden mode. Skie does not read messages, call logs or record audio or video. Geofence alerts are tied to a campus boundary and not a constant watch on a child.
What the school should do around that is not technical. Get consent from parents, usually on the admission or device form, in plain words. Say what is collected, who sees it and when. Keep the purpose narrow: finding a lost tablet, a campus boundary, a school trip. Explain the location trail has limited history. Skie stores data in an India region (Mumbai), and the owner and technician roles can access it for support, which your agreement should state.
Ask your counsel to review the wording against the rules that apply to you, including rules on children's data.
A practical tip: ask yourself what you would say if a parent asked why you had a particular piece of data on their child. If the answer is easy, the policy is probably well-formed. If it is awkward, switch that data off. Many schools run a first term with location available only to one or two senior staff and widen it later only if there is a clear need.