Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines

Re:Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance m... by Spooky23 on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @08:26PM (#21881489)

The proliferation of data platforms and fancy tools makes it easy to build dashboards, etc.

One former colleague is doing a lot of research and statistics gathering by correlating use of campus swipe cards to grades and other academic warning signs.

If they detect that you’re out late, using soda machines at 3am, bugging out for the weekend, etc they may trigger some of sort intervention.

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Re:Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance m... by jimmaswell on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @08:51PM (#21881597)

An intervention for staying up late and leaving on the weekend? Is this a college or a daycare?

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Re:Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance m... by WalterBright on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @11:43PM (#21882069)

I think I subsisted on something like 4 hours of sleep. There was just too much fun going on.

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Re:Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance m... by Khaine on Thursday December 26, 2019 @03:24AM (#21882609)

Sounds like a glorified daycare

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Re:Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance m... by lainga on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @11:48PM (#21882081)

"Smith. 6079 Smith W. Yes, you! Bend lower."

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Re:Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance m... by asdff on Thursday December 26, 2019 @02:27PM (#21886033)

The only time I used a soda machine at 3am was when I was pulling all nighters in the library

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