University of Missouri Tracking Students with Phone App
January 29th, 2020Get them ready for life in those lovely “smart” cities!
Via: Kansas City Star:
Officials say it’s for the students’ own good.
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The phone app is called Spotter, developed by a former Mizzou basketball coach. It works using short-range phone sensors and campus-wide WiFi networks. The university can tell when a student crosses a classroom threshold to enter or leave as the cellphone pings off of a beacon stashed in the room. The app notifies students that they are not in class, in case they are there and forgot to turn on their Bluetooth setting.
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