UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI STUDENTS WILL NOW BE REQUIRED TO INSTALL LOCATION TRACKING APP

Source: https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/76119/university-of-missouri-students-will-now-be-required-to-install-location-tracking.html
Published: Jan 29, 2020
Author: Mike Rivero
Post Date: 2020-01-29 12:06:32 by Horse
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According to a new report from the Kansas City Star, the University of Missouri (MU) has started using an app called SpotterEdu to track students to determine attendance in classes.

Individual professors will choose whether or not to use the app. If they choose to use it, students in those classes will be unable to opt-out and therefore forced to install the software on their mobile phones.

The unprecedented Orwellian move requires students to install the app with no option to opt-out of the potential privacy-invasive software. “A student will have to participate in this recording of attendance,” Jim Spain, vice provost for undergraduate studies at MU said in a statement to the Kansas City Star.

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#1: BTP Holdings    To: Horse (#0)

The unprecedented Orwellian move requires students to install the app with no option to opt-out of the potential privacy-invasive software. “A student will have to participate in this recording of attendance,”

In the old days when we did not have cell phones and you failed to show up in school, the truant officer would come to where you lived. I guess they much prefer Orwell to the old days. ;)

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#2: StraitGate    To: BTP Holdings (#1)

and you failed to show up in school, the truant officer would come

Whenever I skipped a day of school, the teachers were relieved; they considered it a vacation day -- for themselves.

StraitGate posted on 2020-01-29 16:31:12   Reply   Private Reply