Can a school track all your internet history when at your home using your own laptop or personal computer and not connected to their Wi-fi?

Question

I did not check out or use the school's laptop or computer for this. At school, i only use the internet for looking up school stuff, like school email or looking at the school website and sometimes looking at my personal email but not much of anything else.
BUT at home, there might have been several times when I was signed into my school gmail account (in college) and forgot to sign out. My wi-fi is a personal wi-fi, not the school wi-fi. And I looked at Youtube videos on Google Chrome and was shopping online and looked at my personal info online. So My questions is can my school track all of my internet searches when I forgot to sign out of my student gmail account and watched Youtube videos? Can they see my youtube history even when I'm using my own laptop and at my own home? Can they also see my yahoo emails? I rarely use the school gmail to email people other than teachers but I just forgot to sign out several times. So i wanted to know while I'm signed in on my gmail account can they see everything else that I've done? I'm worried and paranoid now.

Answer 1

Is it your own device? And you know what security or tracking software has been installed?



In that case, no they can't. Info between your PC and your home internet connection doing go anywhere near the school. At school it will all go via their firewall server, and basic info can be logged.



Or is it a school supplied machine that you are allowed to take home? That could have tracking and antitheft software loaded. If that's the case they will be legally required to tell you about this, and what it can record. There have been some interested court cases where a school IT staffer used remote access to connect to a students machine at home (this was built in to track the machine in case of theft). But it wasn't stolen and the school got in big legal trouble over this.

Answer 2

If by "can" you mean "is it possible", then OF COURSE THEY CAN.



Especially if there is anybody working for the school district who is mentally unstable...

But we all know that could never happen, don't we?



Haven't you ever heard of "SPYWARE"? Spyware could possibly be downloaded to every computer that connects to your school. That software could then upload your online history to your school every time it reconnects.



When I worked for the Government, all of our computers were in an underground section of the building lined with two feet of lead so that people couldn't spy on our data wirelessly. That was BEFORE 1990, think of the technical advances since then!

Answer 3

Depends. If the history is on your gmail account then yes. but if it is not then no because it is a private network

Answer 4

Geeze. So you look at internet porn. Who cares?

Answer 5

Yes they can but they won't check